adornment

adornment
n
1. ornament, decoration, frill, filigree, flourish, furbelow; tinsel, spangle, trinket, knick-knack, gimcrack, bauble, gewgaw; accessory, attachment.
2. ornamentation, embellishment, trimming, garnish, garnishment, garniture, Archaic. ouch; embroidery, elaboration, trappings, festoons; array, bedizenment, enrichment, beautification, prettification; emblazonment, emblazonry, illumination; luster, flourish, veneer, gloss, gilt, gilding.
3. finery, frippery, frilliness, frills, frills and furbelows, folderol, trumpery, gaudery, fuss, Inf. foofaraw; ostentation, meretriciousness, showiness, show, flamboyance, flashiness, Sl. flash; gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness.
4. ornateness, fanciness, elaborateness, business; ba-roqueness, baroque, rococo, arabesque; richness, luxu-riousness, luxuriance; brilliance, splendor, magnificence.

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