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Example sentences for: ornamentation
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There is much more to see in nearby Nishi-Honganji, an outstanding example of Japanese Buddhist monumental architecture, combining a bold, dramatic silhouette with rich ornamentation.
With Return to Paradise , both men have shed their commercial ornamentation and gone back to their tabloid roots, aiming for stripped-down emotional trajectories and back-against-the-wall dilemmas.
Built onto the castle walls, at first glance this picture-book array of turrets, terraces, and arches could easily pass for authentic medieval fortifications, but they are in fact too good to be true, constructed around the turn of this century as pure ornamentation.
The church itself is being renovated at present, but even through the tarpaulins you can glimpse its rich Baroque carvings and decorative ornamentation.
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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