1 to add decoration to something: --
2 an object that is decorative rather than useful: --
They spent decades collecting these colorful, Victorian-era ornaments.
He believed that the glyphs, ornaments, idols, stelae, and altars were built up of numerical symbols and dedicated to number worship.
All of them wear elaborate headdresses, capes, shoes, and different types of personal ornaments.
The shell elements are either thin, moderately ornamented, and with acute borders or thick, with marked dichotomized sulci, and obtuse borders.
Immediately posterior of the suture, the anteromedial surface of the paroccipital process is coarsely ornamented.
His original greenware had been prised for its array of moulded ornaments and variety of glazed effects.
We have to invent tradition by freely ornamenting our recollections to gain not only some sense of self but also the acceptance of others.
Stylistically the result is characterized by a high degree of for mal elegance, richly ornamented detail and rapid textural transition.
The visceral disc is ornamented strongly by regular rugae but is very weakly reticulated by low costae.
