An ornament is something used for decoration.
Ornament may also refer to:
Decoration
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Ornament (art)
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a 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 ornam ...
, any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts
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Biological ornament
A biological ornament is a characteristic of an animal that appears to serve a decorative function rather than a utilitarian function. Many are secondary sexual characteristics, and others appear on young birds during the period when they are depen ...
, a characteristic of animals that appear to serve only a decorative purpose
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Bronze and brass ornamental work
Art in bronze and brass dates from remote Ancient history, antiquity. These important metals are alloys, bronze composed of copper and tin and brass of copper and zinc.
Proportions of each alloy vary slightly. Bronze may be normally considere ...
, decorative work that dates back to antiquity
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Christmas ornament
Christmas ornaments, baubles, "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 expande ...
, a decoration used to festoon a Christmas tree
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Dingbat
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, (similar to box-drawing characters) or a ...
, decorations in typography
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Garden ornament
A garden ornament is an item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration. Garden ornaments include:
* bench
*bird baths
* bird feeders
* birdhouses
*columns – cast stone
*fire basket
* flower box
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, a decoration in a garden, landscape, or park
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Hood ornament
A hood ornament (or bonnet ornament in Commonwealth English), also called, motor mascot, or car mascot is a specially crafted model which symbolizes a car company like a badge, located on the front center portion of the hood. It has been used ...
, a decoration on the hood of an automobile
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Lawn ornament
Lawn ornaments are decorative objects placed in the grassy area of a property.
Common lawn ornaments
Animal forms: animal statues such as frogs, turtles, rabbits, deer, flamingoes and ducks are cast in plastic or cement.
Bathtub Madonna: a st ...
, a decoration in a grassy area
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Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that i ...
, a decorative plant
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Peak ornament A peak ornament is a decorative element which may be located under the peak of eaves of a gabled building.
For example, peak ornaments are notable features in some of the historic houses of the Noank Historic District, in the town of Groton, Con ...
, a decoration under the peak of the eaves of a gabled building
Music
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Ornament (music)
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 ...
, a flourish that serves to decorate music
*Ornament, a Russian band, forerunner to the band
Kukuruza
Kukuruza is a Russian band who progressed from a student startup to become an international touring act in the early 1990s.
In 1994, the ''Chicago Tribune'' said they were "among the top country groups of Eastern Europe and Russia". That same ...
Other uses
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Ornament (football)
Ornament () is a Hong Kong football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Third Division. Formed in 1948 by HK Gold & Silver Ornament Workers and Merchants General Union, the club has competed as high as the second tier of Hong Kong foot ...
, the football team from Hong Kong
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Ornaments Rubric The "Ornaments Rubric" is found just before the beginning of Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. It runs as follows:
The interpretation of the second paragraph was debated when it first appeared and became a major i ...
, a prayer of the Church of England
See also
Ornamentation of the human body:
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Body modification
Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. In its broadest definition it includes skin tattooing, socially acceptable decoration (''e.g.'', common ear piercing in many s ...
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Fashion
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...
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Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings.
There are infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories. The physical appearance of humans, in particular those a ...
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Jewelry
Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western ...
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Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several Process of tatt ...
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