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Infatti questi gioielli sono nascono dall’Hytrel (un elastomero termoplastico), o meglio, dai suoi scarti di produzione, che vengono recuperati e trasformati in ornamento floreale per collane, bracciali e anelli.
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Let us remark here, that the creation of the municipal commission "del ornamento" which superintends at Milan the architecture of street facades, and to which every house owner is compelled to subject his plan, dates from the seventeenth century.
The Lesser Bourgeoisie Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Hic certe gaudebat, quod iis potissimum in locis, quos ex omnibus dilexit plurimum, fortunarum suarum sedem collocaret; nec minus gaudebant illae, eximium hunc virum, quem altera puerum fovisset, altera aluisset adolescentem, utrisque dehinc ornamento fore et praesidio.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Usando la moda y el glamour simplemente como un ornamento para sus fantasías que durante mucho tiempo se negó a que fueran expuestas fuera de las páginas de las revistas, ya que las consideraba realmente como el "medio" en la que su obra debía presentarse, con la propia banalidad y efimeridad del mes a mes.
edgargonzalez.com 2008
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Numi, qui SeUuciam Syriae, in noucm iilis vrbibus a Selcuco con - ditis et Sclcucias denominatis, pro - pemodum illuftriflimara atquc in maris Syri cxftrudtam litoribus pro - dunt, vt patriam fuam a reliquis Selcucii» dirtinguerent, eam vt plu - rimuni a regione Pieria, cui erat ornamento, «oiijnominarunt SeceU '- ciam Picriam vcl in tieria nempt iltam.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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Falsa sctlicet interpunctio, omnibus omnino Edd. in - haerens, nec a J tionis notae libro cuipiam oneri esse possint, nec potius con. tra ornamento habeantur maximo.
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[Footnote: "Quam non modo marmoreo, verum aureo compsit ornamento."
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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"These operations, together with the gilt field round the figures, the stucco decorations, and the carved framework, tabernacle, or _ornamento_ itself of the picture, were completed first; the faces and hands, which in Italian pictures of the fourteenth century were always in tempera, were added afterwards, or at all events after the draperies and background were finished.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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- tutem, profpcris in rebus ornamento lunt, folatioin aci* vcrGs, nequc illis exuItarcarquccAerriiuos, ncque his fraogi ac dcprimi iinunt, ca. m dcniquc tranquiiiitatem V nimi cfficiuntjqapm multi fintm bonorum cH'e dixenint.
M. Antoni Mureti ... Orationes, epistolæ hymniqve saeri Marc Antoine Muret , Publilius 1660
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Hoc ornamento capitis ad Alexandri excmplum in numit vfhs cft, perindc acrcliqui eiufdeia fucccfTorcSi vt et in co fe: cf (idl - mum imperii haercdem probarer.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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