ornamentation
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"There was really no better choice to describe this setting: right there on the beach, right there in the port of Rimini, where through the ornamentation we also almost echoed the portholes of the boats."
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Even more startling for modern listeners is the bel canto-style vocal ornamentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Obviously, this is just one way to look at a Saturday night that needed no ornamentation to become NYC history.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
Now with the paranoid comedy “Bugonia,” Lanthimos has stripped away all the ornamentation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Root, the new architecture stripped away incidental ornamentation.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing ornamentation
Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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Oscar de la Renta (1932-2014) Tribute List
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 2
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