An ornament is something used for decoration.
Ornament may also refer to:
Decoration
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Ornament (art)
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is 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; most ornament ...
, any purely decorative element in architecture and the decorative arts
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Ornamental turning
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Biological ornament, a characteristic of animals that appear to serve only a decorative purpose
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Bronze and brass ornamental work
Art in bronze and brass dates from remote Ancient history, antiquity. These important metals are alloys, bronze composed of copper and tin and brass of copper and zinc.
Proportions of each alloy vary slightly. Bronze may be normally consider ...
, decorative work that dates back to antiquity
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Christmas ornament, a decoration used to festoon a Christmas tree
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Dingbat
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or a ...
, decorations in typography
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Garden ornament, a decoration in a garden, landscape, or park
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Hood ornament, a decoration on the hood of an automobile
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Lawn ornament, a decoration in a grassy area
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Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or ''garden plants'' are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars th ...
, a decorative plant
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Peak ornament, a decoration under the peak of the eaves of a gabled building
Music
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Ornament (music), a flourish that serves to decorate music
*Ornament, a Russian band, forerunner to the band
Kukuruza
Other uses
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Ornament (football), the football team from Hong Kong
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Ornaments Rubric The "Ornaments Rubric" is found just before the beginning of Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. It runs as follows:
The interpretation of the second paragraph was debated when it first appeared and became a major i ...
, a prayer of the Church of England
See also
Ornamentation of the human body:
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Body modification
Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. In its broadest definition it includes skin tattooing, socially acceptable decoration (''e.g.'', common earring, ear piercing in ...
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Fashion
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...
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Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings.
There are functionally infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories. The physical appearance of humans, in parti ...
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Jewelry
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, ring (jewellery), rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the ...
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Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes ...
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