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"adornment" Definitions
  1. [countable] something that you wear to make yourself look more attractive; something used to decorate a place or an object
  2. [uncountable] the action of making something/somebody look more attractive by decorating it or them with something

159 Sentences With "adornment"

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"I started collecting beads because I thought they were used for adornment, but to my surprise they were never used for adornment," Dabls explained.
The melody is simple and is best presented without adornment.
Now, we present the hot new trend in beard adornment.
She's buying it for herself; it's not just about adornment.
And the adornment was updated, said Skarsgard, with a fashionable twist.
Mollo was especially concerned with this otherwise nude creature's minimalist adornment.
To her, shoes are more than an adornment for the feet.
During a recent meal, dishes were indeed presented without much adornment.
Be sure to leave enough room at the end for your adornment.
For Louisa Guinness, jewelry made by artists is more than just adornment.
They are astounding in their variety and the ingenuity of their adornment.
Its backward glances reimagine and reify through abstraction, cartoon, humor, dissonance, and adornment.
I'll go out of my way to find these moments of self adornment.
It's a rudimentary website, with little in the way of adornment or interactive elements.
"Ta,too Project I and II" (2014) visualizes this intergenerational battle through self-adornment.
Where, for example, is the line between it and other forms of bodily adornment?
Neymar's trickery is an adornment to a game, not a determining factor in it.
The adornment is all it takes to make the boring, old hair tie exciting again.
TS: I imagine adornment as being an affectionate gesture on my part as the maker.
Absent this side vent, the Panamera GTS Sport Turismo is relatively free of exterior adornment.
The next dish, a lobster risotto of epic richness, required no adornment in the slightest.
The duck calls back to Audubon prints and wooden tabletop adornment favored by sophisticated grandparents.
Their soft smiles, synchronicity of feminine adornment, and youth offer a sweet stereoscope of girlhood.
Danish-Irish designer Maria Black sets out to revolutionize the body adornment industry with her creations.
"Some have marked certain periods of my life, and some are strictly adornment," Dr. Hall said.
Several of them wore head scarves, a common adornment for many women who are Russian Orthodox.
Eagle-eyed spotters will first notice new side scuttles (the adornment on the front quarter panels).
And as any star (or regular human) knows, such an adornment will immediately kick off engagement rumors.
With this adornment, your cat won't be able to get enough quality play time with their favorite person.
Arguably the world's largest collection of outdoor painting, Shekhawati is a treasure trove of startling architecture and adornment.
Price: $29.50 on Etsy These purses would make for a great keychain adornment for your favorite bag lover.
Universally considered an adornment, the tassel owed its ubiquity, at least in early days, to its functional side.
A symbol of both flight and fancy, plumes have been the object of obsession — and adornment — for centuries.
A symbol of both flight and fancy, plumes have been the object of obsession — and adornment — for centuries.
Instead he's a conceptualist who approaches clothing as adornment, as artifact, as potential signifiers of ambition, anxiety, desire.
It's a big, round hunk of unassuming black plastic on your wrist without much in the way of adornment.
It's just barely bigger than a quarter, and is perfect as a desktop adornment or as a Christmas ornament.
Humans have been using mollusk exoskeletons as art, adornment, currency and tools since before we were even human beings.
It perspires and is wet, it can smell and [be] transformed into another identity when covered with makeup or adornment.
The video, with Rosalía leading a "Beauty gang," takes fingernail adornment to extravagant extremes — though they can double as knives.
It is "a uniting motif, worn as adornment, a political emblem, and signature of collective identity," according to the center.
Fresh burrata needs no adornment, just good bread, or perhaps a drizzle of olive oil and a few arugula leaves.
Braid styles, twists, wigs, items of adornment, and afros were all wore pre-colonially by Africans as expressions of beauty.
It is a "dog-tooth ankle adornment," or, more precisely, a kupe'e niho ilio, which would have been worn during dances.
Price: $18.08+ Continue the adornment with this beautiful clay cuff that can be gently bent to shape comfortably around any wrist.
And if you've ever had a fresh piercing, you know that hurts like hell when your hairbrush hits your newest adornment.
We knew that we were getting an ice cream sandwich, and that it was orange from some sort of exterior adornment.
Unlike most Nomos watches, which have clear casebacks, the youth line has a closed steel caseback, left largely free of adornment.
IF YOU could design people in a laboratory to be an adornment to America they would look like the recipients of DACA.
Exotic Ivana was the perfect adornment -- until she herself was Trumped by actress Marla, who in turn was Trumped by model Melania.
No, we're not talking about double piercings on a set of nipples — but adornment to third and fourth nipples on the body.
Unfortunately, her character didn't come with the navel adornment, but glitter freckles were enough to reel in the star at first pitch.
Finger limes are used for their sharp, citrusy and tart notes to flavour spirits, and are also a popular adornment for cocktails.
Anyone with a taste for such offbeat adornment probably has to find a retailer whose supplier sources stones on the secondary market.
Although Mr. Bos didn't mention the M-word, it's clear that the millennial generation's views on adornment weigh heavily on the category.
She pointed out her favorite adornment: plushy logs and mitten trees made out of 650 pairs of Michael Kors gloves and scarves.
Today, Santana says, these insects are most commonly eaten like chips, served in tacos, or used as an adornment for other dishes.
Fans might have noticed that during Sansa's coronation ceremony, her hair was worn without any braids or adornment, other than her new crown.
"Huckabee in a Tree" is the latest holiday adornment cooked up the show, inspired by the long-standing watcher Elf on the Shelf.
Bass presents the blood rite of field dressing an elk with no adornment, because like all the essential human endeavors, it needs none.
Truly fresh fish — either pulled straight from the water or properly frozen moments after being caught — doesn't need much by way of adornment.
Rather, his clothes reflect a broad study of costume and, in particular, of the ways adornment and embellishment have been used over centuries.
Think: sexy, messy ponytails for Kim Kardashian; enviably soft waves for Olivia Munn; sultry bedhead for Ashley Benson; and artful adornment for Chrissy Teigen.
What's more, virtually every corpse was associated with some kind of personal adornment, which weren't restricted to any particular age, sex, or other criteria.
The only real adornment is the classic Pixel's two-toned finish on the back: the top of it is glossy; the majority is matte.
"Certainly the use of embroidery, the use of details in adornment and embellishment on top of the leather pieces are just superlative," he added.
Just like its predecessors, it is a fitting adornment to mark messages that wish friends and family good health, happiness, love, and lasting prosperity.
From his $3 hair gel secret weapon to the chic adornment that inspired an entire line of accessories, he's sharing all his secrets, ahead.
Similarly, Sofia Coppola — director of the 2013 jewel heist movie "The Bling Ring" — has made a striking pair of Verdura cuffs her adornment hallmark.
If the All-Star selections were a nice adornment for Epstein, they were not for a familiar former rival, Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman.
Five weeks of plastic windmills, photographs, medals, teddy bears, and heaps of flowers dry from the South Florida heat were gathered in emotional adornment.
And what better way to celebrate a time of year marked by life and vitality than elaborate rituals of beauty, bodily adornment and anointment?
A universal status symbol since ancient times, the metal's beauty, tactility and malleability have long made it the most desirable material in human adornment.
While attendees appreciate the art from around the globe, they may also want to note an adornment on some shop windows: a blue line.
The necklaces, like the sculpture, take on disturbing subject matter yet attract with beauty, using the form of female adornment to deliver her message.
BUT THE STAIRCASE hallway, with its original turned-walnut banister, gives a hint of the idiosyncratic adornment that Cotton has created in the upstairs rooms.
The rise in magpie attacks usually sees a correlative increase in peculiar head adornment in cyclists, as they try to deter the birds from swooping.
We may covet the stones for personal adornment and status flashing; we may imbue them with romance, exoticism, the titillation of the Hollywood jewel heist.
Back downstairs, in a corner of the fast-filling room, Jackson stood waiting, a long bronze medallion — an adornment for each nominee — slung over one forearm.
You've got the Middle Eastern airlines that are subsidized, tens of billions of dollars by their government, to give a lavish appeal and adornment to the airline.
Newsome makes several simultaneous assertions that don't quite cohere: These bodies are made up of shiny accessories, suggesting that they might themselves constitute a kind of adornment.
Publication in a top-notch title such as Nature or Science is an adornment to a scientist's CV that is unlikely to be overlooked by an appointment committee.
He eschewed external decoration for internal integrity, weaving pattern and adornment into the weft of the garment itself in ways that were almost undetectable to the outside eye.
Commemorating Black sartorial expression and self-adornment long in tension with (white) Western aesthetics, the series consciously intertwines subjects' stylistic accouterments with pictorial space reminiscent of European antiquity.
I was wild, fired up, I told myself that I was born to be happy, that only the weak suffer, and modesty is nothing but adornment for the weak.
He compulsively upstages Berlin's simpler melodies with fusillades of florid adornment as if to prove that, unlike the songwriter, he can play the piano in more than one key.
PARELES There's nothing particularly adorned about "The Adornment of Time," a spare new duet album from the drummer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey and the elder pianist Marilyn Crispell.
While attendees of the 57th Venice Biennale appreciate the art from around the globe, they may also want to note an adornment on some shop windows: a blue line.
Rationally or irrationally, they angered me, and not just because I was at one point certain they were going to turn me into a Mad Max–style hood adornment.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a spectacular example of this adornment: a gold serpent with an articulated tongue, which would sway up and down as its wearer moved.
Other sites in Europe have uncovered Neanderthal-made necklaces of strung eagle talons dating back 43,24 years, little ochre clamshell compacts presumably for adornment, and burial sites for their dead.
It's a clip-on controller adornment that gives you two extra buttons to play with on the back of the controller, right where most of us rest our middle fingers.
Frilled shirts, heavy necklaces of jade and coral, and pinned flowers all directed attention where she wished it to fall: "The adornment is concentrated from the torso up," Ms. Henestrosa said.
For centuries, cultures around the world have styled hair as a form of adornment, but this workshop will use it in a way you may not have thought of: as jewelry.
They are surprisingly diverse: a pair of young white women in their going-out clothes stand next to a casually dressed Indian couple whose sole adornment is the wife's crystal-encrusted slides.
She posed with a tight topknot securing a large crown-like adornment and as you can see in the official cover (below), the publication removed the top of her hairstyle all together.
They used to descend on stores that sell the shapeless black gowns called abayas imposed on Saudi women, scoop up those with any adornment — a trace of color, beads — and burn them.
The writers found "the machinery of US immigration used as festive adornment" as insensitive and fear more events such as those would take place if the book remained on Oprah's Book Club.
So was swapping out the paillettes and bugle beads, the way Riccardo Tisci did at Givenchy, and instead using small circular fabric "mirrors" as adornment on cold-shoulder prairie-queen silk gowns.
This little broken shell caught my eye recently and seemed the perfect adornment for this Echo who will be seeking adoption (once completed) along with a few of his kin later this month.
Although they have not ruled out whether it could be a part of the Antikythera mechanism they said that it could just as easily be an adornment of the ship or a vase.
The series, like Lear's shows, is centered on the idea that the things Americans argue about around their dinner tables are already the stuff of riveting drama and don't need any more adornment.
The fluffy, sparkling dresses and the adornment of a tiara are not all that different from my own desire to paint my fingernails and put ribbons in my hair when I was a girl.
But the vivid hues further announce and animate their forward-moving presence and bring the women into familiar visual terrain — their fashion may be outdated but the impulse toward colorful, expressive adornment is not.
In "The Descent of Man," published in 22, he devoted hundreds of pages to sexual selection, which he thought could explain two of the animal kingdom's most conspicuous and puzzling features: weaponry and adornment.
According to Olivier Saillard, the director of Palais Galliera, viewers will experience the diversity of regional fashion and the individuality of each adornment and stitch – made to fit – as it contrasts modern mass production.
This optical shifting between sacred figure and labor implement, decorative adornment and burnt offing, encapsulates the polarities of diasporic experience, and provides one of many moments that will linger in this space of examination.
It's an unnecessary adornment, and the writers seem to realize that — though they take up a lot of space in the story, Charlie's auditory and visual hallucinations don't do much to advance the plot.
" For the interiors, Adjaye Associates is planning to commission some of the most "celebrated and progressive Ghanaian and African artists that will collaborate with the practice to create the Cathedral's religious adornment and furnishings.
Most of the scientists I spoke with said that the old dichotomy between adaptive adornment and arbitrary beauty, between "good genes" and Fisherian selection, is being replaced with a modern conceptual synthesis that emphasizes multiplicity.
Mr. Naoum, a self-described autodidact in his field, explained the carved 19th-century antelope from Mali that was worn as a head adornment during ceremonies and was priced at 45,000 euros, or about $50,203.
While nodding to Vermeer's "Lacemaker" in the facture of her threads, McCoubrey transcends the depiction of lace as a product or adornment, adopting its ornamental language and fusing it masterfully to the illusionistic tradition of painting.
"Living Modern" encourages the viewer to make this calculation: She lived with few embellishments so that her art could be bold; she did not need accessories when she was capturing the walloping adornment of the land.
Even if you're the type to order a cocktail with an umbrella in the middle of winter just to feel like you're on island time, you probably didn't know this fun fact about your favorite drink adornment.
While Berryman and Jackson understood the project of writing sobriety in terms of deprivation — denying themselves the luxuries of plot and stylistic adornment, eschewing the momentous for the plain-spoken — Wallace wrote recovery with an exuberant excess.
Combining popular and queer culture with references to Native American history and current events, Gibson reflects on his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage as a means of exploring the significance, traditions, and rituals of personal adornment and identity.
But with the current maximalist insurgency in the design world, with the entirely welcome return of color and pattern and idiosyncratic interiors, elaborate tile installations may soon follow wallpaper as an old-fashioned adornment updated and rediscovered.
The eclectic mix of workshops includes Expressions in Wire, Paper and Paper Clay; Sculpture as Adornment; Monoprinting for Painters, Printmakers and Photographers; Going Off the Wall: Playful Thinking in 3D; Intaglio Printmaking; and Listening to the Landscape.
Both of these elements, alongside other materials that I employ, represent the notion of artifice, constructed ideas, and how we consider adornment of ourselves and of our environments: the concept of dressing up or covering something up.
Over the past decade, she's gone from fresh-faced newbie to glam PLL star to what she is now: a woman who wants her hair short, her makeup minimal, her body adornment plentiful, and her lip color loud.
" The Koran also implies that the drama and dilemma of our first ancestors' disobedience recurs in every subsequent generation: "O Children of Adam, we have bestowed on you clothing to conceal your private parts and as an adornment.
Thomas has a weakness for refractive adornment, but Lee's main vices are European designer clothes and ostentatious sneakers, which are constantly arriving at the Quality Control offices, courtesy of various people who like him, or owe him a favor.
Though she didn't stray far from her preferred red carpet formula (Louis Vuitton dress in a simple silhouette with very minimal adornment) she did make a few tweaks that made her look one of my favorite in recent memory.
While you probably think that at this stage in the necklace's assent to ubiquity you've seen every possible iteration of the body adornment that can exist, it seems there's still one last frontier for it left to conquer—the man choker.
The runways were all about adornment, although the statement hair accessory made its debut a while back — Ashley Williams' spring 2017 collection included an embellished GIRLS hairpin that was then seen on everyone from Alexa Chung to Georgia May Jagger.
You look at every woman who is in the video, you look at the African influences, when she shows the mothers of young black men who have been killed by police — they're all wearing African adornment, every last one of them.
In her latest series, Photos of Gifts, on view at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis through November 11, Bennett removes herself as a visible player in order to toy with questions of frivolity, adornment, and the rituals of consumption.
Many complied, though as a practical matter it proved more effective for male attendees, who could simply pin a bud to their lapel, than the women, whose strapless, lacy and otherwise highly decorated gowns did not lend themselves to further adornment.
The Body Electric owner/artist is responsible for constellation piercings, L.A.'s obsession with nipple adornment, and even the latest uptick in the labret (the center of the bottom lip) and the philtrum (he just did FKA Twigs', but more on that later.
It is a reminder of the weight of marriage for women in many eras — adornment functioning here as a literal bodily prison, and as an external manifestation of the concept that a woman was a piece of monetary wealth for her in-laws.
While recording the "Help!" album that year, he brought in flutists for the simple adornment that enlivens Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," and he convinced Mr. McCartney, against his initial resistance, that "Yesterday" should be accompanied by a string quartet.
There's nothing particularly pretty about the results — the scene looks almost as if he just set up a camera and started shooting — but this lack of obvious adornment is itself an aesthetic choice in a movie that feels closer to life than most.
Word of the Day noun: an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) noun: branched lighting fixture, often ornate, that hangs from the ceiling adjective: held from above _________ The word pendant has appeared in 100 articles on nytimes.
But not all transformation has been treated with equal regard: The history of adornment is also a history of culture — of race, class, and climate — and that which has been coded "white" has been consistently lauded in the West as most aesthetically valuable.
Anya Hindmarch, the designer who helped restart the craze with her bag stickers — permanent decals you attach to your handbags — said she sees the safety net as the fact that she still designs the bag (the canvas); it is only the adornment that is optional.
"Reflections in Real Time," her first proper album, made with the musician and producer Ray Brady, follows the same dilatory path with less adornment: You can hear her earnest voice more clearly, in blithe rapping and singing over sweet backgrounds of pop and trap.
Instead of giving herself generously to a work she undertakes, a woman too often considers it simply as an adornment of her life; the book and the picture are merely some of her inessential means for exhibiting in public that essential reality: her own self.
Bakers had sharp words for the Hershey Company this month after buying bags of Hershey's Kisses, a popular adornment on holiday cookies, only to discover a flaw that was small in size but a giant eyesore: The tip was missing on each piece of chocolate.
Julius Caesar was said to have had one of his nipples pierced, as the accessory was a sign of strength in ancient Rome; and sailors would celebrate crossing a significant longitude or latitude with a single ring, according to Margo DeMello's Encyclopedia of Body Adornment.
Ralph Appelbaum Associates designed the 11,000-square-foot transformation of the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems and Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Minerals to showcase 4,500 specimens, explain how scientists classify them and illuminate how humans have used them for personal adornment, tools and technology.
The elaborate beading and embroidery she favors, done entirely and painstakingly by hand, recalls, in her words, "the traditional way of adornment of human beings," harking back to a mix of traditions that include, but are not limited to, African, Central Asian and South American.
The exhibition, Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora at Steven Kasher gallery demonstrates how the enduring vitality of the continent's traditional rituals of body adornment, masking, costuming, and spirit invocation are reinterpreted by image makers of African descent born between the 1970s and 1990s.
She has started to wear only red lipstick, nothing else, her skin is luminous, she swears by a facialist, and the only other adornment she allows is having her nails done at this Japanese nail salon, where they put intricate designs on them with a gel paint.
In the back is a dining room with a pretty skylight and little adornment beyond two large prints by the surf photographer Brian Bielmann, of tow-in boats at Teahupoo, in Tahiti, one of the world's great breaks, and of tiny riders in a long peel of blue.
Despite the flashy adornment, the Tag Heuer Connected Full Diamond is otherwise identical to the Tag Heuer Connected Modular 234 smartwatch the company launched last year, although at a price of 0003,2000 Swiss Francs (roughly $2100,2000), the Full Diamond model is the most expensive Android Wear watch ever made.
"Mezuzah Kissers," for instance, is a reference to the Jewish religious rite of kissing a mezuzah (doorpost adornment containing bible verses) when you enter a home: Basically, Regev is saying that Labor hates religious Jews, which is code for Mizrahi more broadly, and thus can't be allowed to win.
Social media users were quick to to start asking questions about what the ribbons were, as stars including Lin Manuel Miranda of "Hamilton" fame, actress Ruth Negga of the nominated film "Loving" and Barry Jenkins, the director of "Moonlight," hit the red carpet with the extra piece of adornment.
But efficiency is the point: In its determined lack of adornment, its commitment to the straight and narrow — reflecting the personality of its hero — "Bosch" is an increasingly rare commodity in a time when genre dramas will resort to any kind of high-concept trickery to stand out.
For instance, the adornment and "deepfake" transformation of the human face, now common on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, was introduced in a startup sold to Google by one of the authors; such capabilities were called image processing 15 years ago, but are routinely termed AI today.
Male dancers either pose in the Greek style of a god, or in imitation of surrealist paintings: a portrait of dancer Fred Daniel, dated 1937, shows him kneeling beneath a cloak and wearing an eye-shaped patch on his chest, with a wide smile-like adornment in his groin region.
" Among the conditions ... "Except for gifts between them for their engagement, wedding or on birthdays and anniversaries, no item of jewelry and/or personal adornment costing over $250,000 will be deemed a gift unless accompanied by, or promptly followed by, a writing specifically stating 'This is my gift to you.
It's the uncanny way many of the poems capture emotional states that feel as contemporary as a text message, which in fact they are ('My adornment is ended,' the Lady Hou confesses in the seventh century, 'but this only adds to my misery / To dream of happiness is itself a grief').
Blakeney has also written about the generalizations made when boho-chic products are categorized as "ethnic" or "tribal": What the word has come to mean in the design world (or at least on Pinterest) seems to be any room, outfit, or adornment that looks like it does not have Western-European origins.
They make some of the best jeans on the runway (white, straight, hung off the hips and cropped at the ankle, then dip dyed in pastels or splotched with brown like cowhide) and then mix them up with knits defined by negative space, use decomposition as adornment, and reject the notion of gender differentiation.
It also lays out tensions then related to luxury that still hold weight today: from how luxurious adornment of the body or home conflicted with the old Roman republican emphasis on frugality to how Greek philosophers pondered as early as the second century B.C. whether luxury fueled vanity and greed — and therefore could be bad for the soul.
Beginning with the dawn of tattoos, the carefully curated exhibition traces their lineage from the Haudenosaunee tribe in New York who used tattoos as marks of protection and for their perceived healing powers, to contemporary adornment of tattoos as symbols of empowerment and commemoration, with portraits of breast cancer survivors' chest tattoos and 9/11 survivors' "never forget" emblems.
Yet with some of these artifacts that reflect religious beliefs, she traces a continuum between Africa and its diaspora such as in Beaded Prayers Project (1999–2004), an accumulative installation that comprises over 4000 beaded prayers, she explores amulets as body adornment, and for their more intrinsic value as divination, protective, spiritual, and healing objects in the African and African Diaspora traditions.
" What hasn't changed at all is the bakery itself, with its stopped-in-time storefront that is almost entirely free of adornment — unless you count the shelves of challah and rye, trays of cookies, rugelach and babka, some hand-lettered signs ("Cash Only") and a worn-looking certificate commemorating a "Best of the Borough" award of uncertain vintage for "Best Smell Ever.
There's one on Staten Island, "Lighthouse and Bridge" (1996)—an elevated walkway to the ferry, featuring a skeletal tower topped with a stained-glass lamp and, elsewhere, the inscription of a poem by Wallace Stevens—and a collaborative contribution to the adornment, in 1989, of the riverside plaza of Battery Park City, also with snippets of poetry, celebrating Manhattan, by Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara.

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