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adornment|əˈdɔːnmənt|
Forms: 5 aournement, aornement, 5–6 adournement, 6 adornament, 6–7 adornement, 6– adornment.
[a. OFr. aournement, later adournement, adornement; f. aourner, adourner, to adorn + -ment, as if:—L. *adōrnāmentum, to which the Eng. spelling was occasionally assimilated.]
1. The action of adorning, or embellishing; embellishment, ornamentation.
1480Caxton Ovid's Metam. x. vi, He..made to her many fayre aornamentis. 1614Raleigh Hist. World (J.) The heavens, before they had motion and adornment. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 145 All the industry and art I could unite to the adornment of my native tongue. 1877A. Brassey Voy. in Sunbeam x. (1878) 163 The finest description used for personal adornment.
2. A thing employed to adorn; an ornament, a decoration. With pl.
1489Caxton Faytes of Armes i. v. 11 The ladies them self brought theyr jewellis and ryche adournemens. 1543Blomeyr in Richm. Wills & Invent. (1853) 47 Decent kepyng and wesshyng of the adornaments belongyng to the altars. 1814Byron Corsair iii. viii. 40 My steps will gently tread With these adornments. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 28 Thou hast won thee rich adornments. 1859Mrs. Schimmelpenninck Beauty i. ix. §29 The colouring, adornments, and furnishing of a room. |