- Look up
ornament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
ornament is
something used for decoration.
Ornament may also
refer to:
Ornament (art), any purely...
- In
architecture and
decorative art,
ornament is
decoration used to
embellish parts of a
building or object.
Large figurative elements such as monumental...
- "
Ornament and Crime" is an
essay and
lecture by
modernist architect Adolf Loos that
criticizes ornament in
useful objects.
Contrary to po****r
belief that...
- In music,
ornaments or
embellishments are
musical flourishes—typically,
added notes—that are not
essential to
carry the
overall line of the
melody (or...
- A hood
ornament (or
bonnet ornament or
bonnet mascot in
Commonwealth English), also
called a
motor mascot or car mascot, is a
specially crafted model that...
- The
boteh (Persian: بته), is an
almond or pine cone-shaped
motif in
ornament with a sharp-curved
upper end.
Though of
Persian origin, it is very common...
-
Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are
decoration items,
usually to
decorate Christmas trees.
These decorations...
- same
ornament, or vice versa.
Different ornament names can
refer to an
ornament from a
specific area or time period.
Understanding these ornaments is important...
-
dingbat (sometimes more
formally known as a printer's
ornament or printer's character) is an
ornament, specifically, a
glyph used in typesetting,
often emplo****...
-
Islamic ornament is the use of
decorative forms and
patterns in
Islamic art and
Islamic architecture. Its
elements can be
broadly divided into the arabesque...
