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Look up: Ornament

  1. Ornament
    Ornament is a cultivated variety of potato.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. ornament
    [v] - be an ornament to
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Ornament
    A thing used or serving to adorn
    Found on http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mg1.htm#

  4. Ornament
    Is a form of surface decoration; something that decorates, adorns, or embellishes. Ornamentation is the class of things that are ornamental.
    Found on http://www.virtualani.org/glossary/index

  5. Ornament
    Or'na·ment noun [ Middle English ornement , French ornement , from Latin ornamentum , from ornare to adorn.] That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment. « Th...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/33

  6. Ornament
    Or'na·ment transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ornamented ; present participle & verbal noun Ornamenting .] To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/33

  7. Ornament
    • (n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment. • (v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. ornament
    in architecture, any element added to an otherwise merely structural form, usually for purposes of decoration or embellishment. Three basic and ... [7 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/32

  9. ornament
    ornament, in architecture, decorative detail enhancing structures. Structural ornament, an integral part of the framework, includes the shaping and placement of the buttress, cornice, molding, ceiling, and roof and the capital and other elements of the column, as well as the use of building material...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A083

  10. ornament
    ornament, in music, notes added to a melodic line for the purpose of embellishment or decoration, often called graces. Ornamentation was practiced as early as the Middle Ages by the singers of plainsong, and the practice seems to have reached its height in the baroque era. Treatises were written and...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08369

  11. Ornament
    In general parlance, an ornament is a decoration. That is something which serves
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. Ornament
    (music) . In music, `ornaments` or `embellishments` are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line. Many ornaments are performed as "fast notes" around a central note...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament

  13. Ornament
    (art) :For other uses of the term, see: Ornament In architecture and decorative art, `ornament` is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; mo...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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