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or·na·ment
noun
- 1. a thing used to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine. Similar
verb
- 1. make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items: "the men and women in the Stone Age ornamented their caves"
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In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornaments do not include human figures, and if present they are small compared to the overall scale.
Ornaments are a decorative embellishment to music, either to a melody or to an accompaniment part such as a bassline or chord. Sometimes different symbols represent the same ornament, or vice versa. Different ornament names can refer to an ornament from a specific area or time period.
In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony ), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.
Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques.
Decoration. Ornament (art), any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts. Ornamental turning. Biological ornament, a characteristic of animals that appear to serve only a decorative purpose. Bronze and brass ornamental work, decorative work that dates back to antiquity.
The acanthus ( Ancient Greek: ἄκανθος) is one of the most common plant forms to make foliage ornament and decoration in the architectural tradition emanating from Greece and Rome.