All adornment synonyms
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A a noun adornment
- ornamentation — the act of ornamenting.
- ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- trimming — the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- gilding — the application of gilt.
- beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
- frippery — finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
- jazz — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- doodad — a decorative embellishment; trinket; bauble: a dress covered with doodads.
- frill — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- dingbat — Slang. an eccentric, silly, or empty-headed person.
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
- gewgaw — something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.
- floss — the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- titivate — titillate.
- self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
- garnish — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
- fandangle — elaborate ornament
verb adornment
- gussy up — to enhance the attractiveness of in a gimmicky, showy manner (usually followed by up): a room gussied up with mirrors and lights.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quilted — resembling a quilt, as in texture, design, stitching, etc.
- gussied up — dressed in a showy way
- cross-stitch — Cross-stitch is a type of decorative sewing where one stitch crosses another.