Words similar to ornamentation
Example sentences for: ornamentation
How can you use “ornamentation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It has curious and fine carved struts as well as door ornamentation.
The church itself is being renovated at present, but even through the tarpaulins you can glimpse its rich Baroque carvings and decorative ornamentation.
Maybe that explains Susan Faludi's enigmatic visage on the cover of Newsweek --participating in the ornamentation thing, but knowing better.
Faludi sets out to discover why men are so resistant to women's advancement but ends up with a sympathetic portrait of the sorry state of American manhood, faulting the culture of "ornamentation" and the economy's removal of men from meaningful jobs.
Similarly, Bombay furniture (a style combining European forms with Indian ornamentation) provided the metonymic euphemism The Bombay; the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the name is possibly attributable to the Bombay chair , wherein chamberpots were placed, as it was common in the past to have one's chamberpot concealed in a piece of furniture, which could then be proudly displayed.
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