ornament
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The dozens of Whitney exhibitions that have featured his pieces most recently included “Order and Ornament: Roy Lichtenstein’s Entablatures” in 2019-20.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022
Ornament — once an indicator of skill — can be seen by some as an indicator of bad taste.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021
See how Jews, Christians and Muslims managed to peacefully coexist in medieval Spain in the documentary special “The Ornament of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019
Ornament and harmony are rejected favour of dissonance and silence.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2019
The Chimney-piece of the first of these Galleries is a great Ornament to it, being of the finest Marble adorn'd with Brass, gilt with Water-Gold.
Vocabulary lists containing ornament
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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