adornment
noun
adorn·ment
ə-ˈdȯrn-mənt 
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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The relief was most likely an adornment on the outside of a royal monument.
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Eventually, though, Indigenous trade networks carried the shells thousands of miles, from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Plains, and were exchanged with tribes such as the Lakota and Ojibwe, where the shells began being used as a form of adornment, and even currency.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
The late High Modernist architect and educator Charles Gwathmey created a body of work defined by playfully bold geometric forms and a spare use of adornment employed with formal elegance.
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Even more evergreen than a bough of holly leaves is an adornment that never fades from season to season.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
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Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Eventually, though, Indigenous trade networks carried the shells thousands of miles, from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Plains, and were exchanged with tribes such as the Lakota and Ojibwe, where the shells began being used as a form of adornment, and even currency.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
The late High Modernist architect and educator Charles Gwathmey created a body of work defined by playfully bold geometric forms and a spare use of adornment employed with formal elegance.
—Mark David, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
Even more evergreen than a bough of holly leaves is an adornment that never fades from season to season.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for adornment
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“Adornment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adornment. Accessed 21 Oct. 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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