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- noun Plural form of
adornment .
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Examples
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In fact, there are literally "millions" of ways to use these little word adornments to express yourself.
Bethany Keeley: 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks 'Infect' The Nation: Grammar Pet Peeves (PHOTOS) 2010
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In fact, there are literally "millions" of ways to use these little word adornments to express yourself.
Bethany Keeley: 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks 'Infect' The Nation: Grammar Pet Peeves (PHOTOS) 2010
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In fact, there are literally "millions" of ways to use these little word adornments to express yourself.
Bethany Keeley: 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks 'Infect' The Nation: Grammar Pet Peeves (PHOTOS) 2010
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In fact, there are literally "millions" of ways to use these little word adornments to express yourself.
Bethany Keeley: 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks 'Infect' The Nation: Grammar Pet Peeves (PHOTOS) Bethany Keeley 2010
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The fripperies, the jagged curves and inharmonious lines and colors of the so-called "adornments" are surmounted, and the naked figure stepping from their scattered pile is seen in its utter simplicity.
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Gradually she expanded to more products such as adornments and cosmetics.
Kiva Loans 2010
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Linkage is apparent even in the smallest details, such as adornments on the seats.
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Aristotle regarded such figures and fancies as "adornments," but in the 19th century (which saw the birth both of Spooner and Sir James A.H. Murray's monstrous lexicographical child) the icing on the cake, all froth and saccharinity to the humorless rhetorician, becomes in fact the entire bill of fare; the rhetorical flourish, all we can discern of rhetoric, and the play on words, the word itself.
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The card—usually a digital image of a handcrafted paper card made by Paperless Post designers—pops out of the envelope with adornments that may include a fancy lining and personally selected calligraphy.
Stationery Lovers Find One True E-Valentine Katherine Rosman 2012
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Millbank Tower, SW1, Mon head to the north side of the river to view the showSam RichardsAs the month draws to a close and opportunities to show off Movember's upper-lip adornments rapidly decrease, Nice'n'Sleazy is as good a place as any to blend in with the brigade who would have us believe that a moustache is not just for charity but a way of life.
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