| 单词 | adornment |
| 释义 | adornment (once / 2314 pages) n An adornment is some ornament or accent that makes a person or thing look more attractive. You might check out your hair in the mirror before a party and decide it needs an adornment — a hat or a glittery barrette. Tinsel draped on a Christmas tree is an adornment, and so are the fuzzy dice hanging on your car's rear view mirror. Lipstick is an adornment, and so is a polka dotted bow tie, since they both dress a person up a little bit. Another way to use adornment is to mean the act or process of decorating: "The adornment of the high school gym had transformed it into a winter wonderland." The Latin root is adornare, "equip or embellish." WORD FAMILYadornment: adornments+/adorn: adorned, adorning, adornment, adorns/adorned: unadorned USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Singer seems to regard wit as immoral adornment. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Style guides for each brand dictate placement of special ribbon or other adornments. Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) Prosperity is changing expectations, I think, but some men still expect women to be adornments, and resent their aspirations. BBC(Nov 19, 2016) 1n the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting Hyper decoration the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive) 2n a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness Hypo|Hyper band, banding, stripe an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinketcheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing beauty spota spot that is worn on a lady's face for adornment boutonnierea flower that is worn in a buttonhole circletdecorated metal band worn around the head cordonadornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord epaulet, epauletteadornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder foban adornment that hangs from a watch chain flounce, frill, furbelow, rufflea strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim froga decorative loop of braid or cord frontal, frontletan adornment worn on the forehead jewellery, jewelryan adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) pectoral, pectoral medallionan adornment worn on the chest or breast pendant, pendentan adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) plumea feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament pom-pom, pompondecoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat rosettean ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor diamante, sequin, spangleadornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing tasseladornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end passementerie, trim, trimminga decoration or adornment on a garment war paintadornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle aigret, aigrettea long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume beada small ball with a hole through the middle bijoua small and delicately worked piece bling, bling blingflashy, ostentatious jewelry bangle, braceletjewelry worn around the wrist for decoration braid, braiding, gold braidtrimming used to decorate clothes or curtains cigar banda narrow paper band around a cigar clipan article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress cufflinkjewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt earringjewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe gauffer, gofferan ornamental frill made by pressing pleats hatbanda band around the crown of a hat just above the brim jabota ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt gem, jewel, precious stonea precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry lavalier, lavaliere, lavallierejeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck minivertrimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur neckbanda band around the collar of a garment necklacejewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) panachea feathered plume on a helmet pepluma flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse pina piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment pinstripea very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) rickrack, ricraca narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming band, ringjewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger shoulder board, shoulder markepaulets that indicate rank sword knotan ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword tie clipa piece of jewelry that holds a man's tie in place decoration, ornament, ornamentation something used to beautify |
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