adornment
noun
adorn·ment
ə-ˈdȯrn-mənt 
Examples of adornment in a Sentence
the adornment of the walls with her paintings
Her room doesn't have any unnecessary adornments.
The entrance to the building has little adornment.
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And who could forget the Trader Joe’s mini canvas tote TikTok craze that had shoppers swiping the supermarket’s stock to later DIY with ribbons, embroidery, and Jane Birkin-esque adornments?
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Footwear News, 3 July 2025
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—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
These included the manufacturing of refined tools, decorative adornments and jewelry, as well as participating in elaborate ritualistic burials.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
How does color, and by extension adornment, serve as a way to signal spiritual or emotional states within your work?
—Essence, 17 June 2025
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Footwear News, 3 July 2025
This piece includes a lot of adornments and beautiful items, Yang places the gold finger at the bottom of the work to literally ‘point out’ the danger of placing value on the wrong things, this is King Midas’s finger - who famously was confronted with the dangerous reality of his desires.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
These included the manufacturing of refined tools, decorative adornments and jewelry, as well as participating in elaborate ritualistic burials.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
How does color, and by extension adornment, serve as a way to signal spiritual or emotional states within your work?
—Essence, 17 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for adornment
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“Adornment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adornment. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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adornment
noun
adorn·ment
ə-ˈdȯrn-mənt
1
: the action of adorning : the state of being adorned
2
: something that adorns
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