LekhoriLekhoriAn element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride / Looks only for a moment whole and sound; / Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments, / Which at a touch of light, an air of heaven, / Slipt into ashes and was found no more.
A Christmas tree decoration.
A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is der...
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To add to.
The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.