adornment
noun
adorn·ment
ə-ˈdȯrn-mənt 
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Examples of adornment in a Sentence
the adornment of the walls with her paintings
Her room doesn't have any unnecessary adornments.
The entrance to the building has little adornment.
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Scarlett Conlon, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
Such moments of creative exhilaration were intermittent adornments of a diffuse slog.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Others use crystals and silver adornments to add shine to jeans like Monse and Casablanca.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Jan. 2025
There's something extraordinary about these women who were enslaved insisting upon a particular color for adornment. ...
—Tonya Mosley, NPR, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Adornment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adornment. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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adornment
noun
adorn·ment
ə-ˈdȯrn-mənt
1
: the action of adorning : the state of being adorned
2
: something that adorns
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