An ornament is something used for decoration. Ornament may also refer to:

Decoration

Ornament (art) 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 ornament ...

, any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts *

Ornamental turning Ornamental turning is a type of turning, a craft that involves cutting of a work mounted in a lathe. The work can be made of any material that is suitable for being cut in this way, such as wood, bone, ivory or metal. Plain turning is work executed ...

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 *

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 consider ...

, decorative work that dates back to antiquity *

Christmas ornament 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 woo ...

, a decoration used to festoon a Christmas tree *

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 *

Garden ornament A garden ornament or lawn ornament is a non-plant item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration. History Early examples of the use of garden ornaments in western culture were seen in Ancient Roman gardens such as th ...

, a decoration in a garden, landscape, or park *

Hood ornament 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 symbolizes a car company, like a badge, located on the front center portion of the Hood ...

, a decoration on the hood of an automobile *

Lawn ornament A garden ornament or lawn ornament is a non-plant item used for garden, landscape, and park enhancement and decoration. History Early examples of the use of garden ornaments in western culture were seen in Ancient Roman gardens such as those ...

, a decoration in a grassy area *

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 th ...

, a decorative plant *

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, Co ...

, a decoration under the peak of the eaves of a gabled building

Music

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

Ornament (football) Ornament () is a Hong Kong football club which currently does not compete in the Hong Kong football league system. Formed in 1948 by HK Gold & Silver Ornament Workers and Merchants General Union, the club has competed as high as the second tier ...

, the football team from Hong Kong *

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

Decoration

Music

Other uses

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