Ornament
That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
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Ornament Quotations
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas
Ornament Translations
ornament in Afrikaans is sieraad
ornament in Danish is dekoration
ornament in Dutch is versieren
ornament in German is Verzierung, Zierde
ornament in Italian is ornamento
ornament in Latin is ornatus
ornament in Spanish is alhaja, ornamento
ornament in Swedish is prydnad, smycke, sira, dekoration
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