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Sentence Examples Of course, some flowers are used for personal adornment, both the blossoms themselves and their essences in the form of perfumes. Necklaces are worn now for a variety of reasons not the least of which personal adornment. Little adornment was on her, except a single piercing at the top of her pointed ear, but what caught Kira's attention was the fife at her waist. They signify social status by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. In Spain there, they were very famous for not using stone or brick, they would do everything in wood with adornment and decoration. Laboriously, he strung them on a thread and hung them round his neck by way of adornment. Except the tattooing both sexes are remarkable for their almost entire absence of any marked adornment or ornament of person. Stages of entry into the cult may be marked by transformations of the body or its adornment. Many African peoples use beads as distinctive elements of personal clothing and adornment. From the late 15 th century etching came into widespread use as a means of adornment, mainly on pieces of armour. Those women who have to go out to earn for their families cannot afford adornment. There is evidence that the descendants of Native Americans in prehistoric times used beads as adornment in jewelry as well as a way to trade. Throughout history, Africans have imported glass beads and used them for adornment and elaborate beadwork. So is there hope that a Union Flag could join the maple leaf and the five-ring Olympic insignia as a bodily adornment? He then shifts to the use of gold in Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, initially as adornment but later as a medium of exchange. Much of the exhibition is focused on body adornment, primarily beadwork, though sculpture in a variety of media is represented as well. These trades churned out in ever more massive quantities a myriad of small objects for personal and domestic adornment and use. I shall wager she has already observed my abandonment of an adornment generally considered requisite. On paper, the Arc seemed like a reasonable adornment for public space in the bureaucratic eyes that authorized its creation. Like all human societies, adornment was a marker of status, and in European societies, adornment often meant adornment of clothing. Show More Sentences There are useful and ornamental goods suited for any kind of presentation, or for personal adornment, or household use. She casually scribbled her thoughts of adornment on a piece of scrap paper while she half listened to what the teacher was saying. They are often used either as adornment, or as an ingredient in potions, unguents or medicaments when crushed into powder. Some jewels, such as turquoise, traditionally had a sacred value, beyond adornment. In the good old days, mutton chops were both a cut of meat and a style of whiskery adornment. Like hairstyles and clothing fashions, make-up is usually a temporary form of adornment, one that can be washed off and changed at will. Note the way orichalc is used as an adornment for the most important element of the temple. Tim Holtz Idea-ology word sticks are a long piece of metal used as a principal carrier of meaning that can be worn or used as a craft adornment. Something used for decorating, adornment, embellishment as well as a badge, medal, etc., conferred and worn as a mark of honor. A golden age Gold jewellery is the predominant commercial outlet for gold sales and personal adornment using gold has been a feature of most societies since ancient times. As a consequence both clerical and secular moralists felt able to criticize fashion on the grounds of the supposed morality or immorality of clothing and personal adornment. The great decorating ornament set with great mani-jewels made by a divine artisan, is not superable by any other human and divine ornaments for decoration and adornment. For the first time in memory, I found a flauta that needed no adornment. Two boxes of undisturbed cupcakes sit on a table – the only adornment in Hildegard Bechtler's stark, steel-clad set. My language, my valued possession My language, my object of affection My language, my precious adornment. His less visible piercing, called a hasada, is also a visual adornment. Earrings have always been included in the category of body adornment. This may explain why our painter is careful to show Athena as about to bedeck Pandora with a characteristically feminine adornment, a fancy necklace. The trend for adornment amongst Middle Eastern women is nothing new, but nail polish is often left out of the equation. Around her throat a simple gold chain was her only adornment. Show More Sentences They wear ornaments of human bone, which remind us of death, impermanence and renunciation, and as adornment, they wear ashes from cremation grounds. A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic. As such, he goes straight to the fundamentals, stripping his subject of any superfluity and adornment. In addition to the mosaic icons, this gallery held a small number of works of steatite and precious stone that were used for private devotions or for personal adornment. And it was the adornment of a place of danger with the memorabilia of attachment and love – kids' clothes, photographs – that touched them, too. Jewels were regularly reset a necklace may become a bodice adornment or belt buckles and then lent to extended family or an intended. Appointment to a corporate board once seemed an undemanding honour, the ideal adornment to an already successful career. As an adornment of the body, it conveys a quite special experience of beauty. At the turn of the century, grotesques were carved as designs of figures for decoration or adornment on buildings. The island's exotic wood species were also used to make dance accessories and prestigious forms of personal adornment. Because rock climbers and others haven't bothered them they still have rare and precious toppings of bilberry and heather and adornment of mosses and lichens. The adornment belongs to both styles: primitive Gothic and rayonnant Gothic. The clothes and the adornment know a mutation adapted to the contemporary life and imposed by the fashion. It also radiates an extremely understated personality when the gleam of its metal, be it steel or gold, appears free of any other adornment. There exists a very large number of other claims of Neanderthal art, adornment, and structures. Do adornment or finery really mean the hair and face? There is particular emphasis on the representation of the details of headdresses, hairstyles, body adornment and face painting. Chrysostom was known for his fiery preaching against what he saw as threats to his flock, including wealth, entertainment, privilege and outward adornment. Lubavitchers, Penansky says, believe mezuzahs need no adornment and simply wrap them in cellophane. With Sunbird Heartbeat, Century proposes a bright, restrained and timeless design, and one that is certainly not without meaning: small suspended hearts attract the attention whilst forming an elegant adornment for the wrist. Show More Sentences Traditionally, needles have been kept in needle books or needlecases which have become objects of adornment. The screen version of Testament of Youth gilds the lily of Vera Brittain's memoir – though fans of the book may well feel it didn't need so much extra adornment. They are renowned for their elaborate upper body adornment and jewellery. They also developed language in the Paleolithic period and a conceptual repertoire that included systematic burial of the dead and adornment of the living. Birds were hunted for meat and feathers, the latter used for adornment. There are survivals from the large brooches in fibula or penannular form that were a key piece of personal adornment for elites, including the Irish Tara Brooch. The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monument with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw erected and Marx's original tomb had only humble adornment. This section also provides chapters devoted to pediatric problems, genital adornment, female genital mutilation, and genital and perianal diseases of psychogenic origins. Examples include stone tools, pottery vessels, metal objects such as weapons, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewelry and clothing. Bastards, badmash, sala junglee crooks, never worked a day, took everything, even my new wedding ring,' wails the youngish bride of startling beauty who needs no adornment. Examples from Classical Literature Save here and there a deserted camp, or a burial mound, containing perhaps articles of use or adornment, all traces have vanished. But the keeping room already showed some traces of a woman's love for adornment. Originally, clothes were only worn for adornment or for protection against the cold. It had gone to Constantinople, he said, for the adornment of the favorite sultana. Here, as in the adornment of the palace, the most splendid lavishness had been employed. The love evinced for cottage adornment would have been lost in a passage through the Canuck settlements of the East. We must find new islands to denude, to ravage, to desolate, for our adornment. I had brought rich materials, jewels and flowers for Rose's adornment. If the public have the benefit, and if the country have the adornment, of this great grasp, it must be paid for in money or money's worth, sir. The wearer had earned his adornment with the work of his hands. The old simplicity had given way to elegance and luxury of adornment. She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. The adornment, plastic and polychromatic, is strictly structural. I did not know before, that a half-mile of sextuple railway-tracks could be made such an adornment. The estate had formerly belonged to a gentleman of opulence and taste, who had bestowed some considerable attention to the adornment of his grounds. But it was in the adornment of the fair person of his dark-complexioned spouse that the tailors of the fleet had evinced the gaiety of their national taste. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of adornment? Words that rhyme with adornment What is the plural of adornment? What is the adverb for adornment? What is the adjective for adornment? What is the noun for adornment? Translations for adornment Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words adorning adorned adorn adoringly adoring adores adornments adorno adorns adour adown ADP 9-letter Words Starting With a ad ado ador adorn adornm adornme adornmen