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The floramiento is a ceremony, traditionally held in February, where everyone brings their llamas down from the high-altitude plateaux and gives thanks to Pachamama, the Earth Mother, then decorates the animals, adding floral adornments to their necks and ears.
3ae90f85-de5e-4e16-82df-45cf7d644439 THIS newspaper churlishly deprives its editors of the egocentric adornments of our trade.
Conspicuous religious adornments were banned from French state schools in 2004; and full-face veils were outlawed altogether in 2011.In Britain, for better or worse, a law that prevented child-minders or teachers from covering their heads (ie from wearing the standard Muslim hijab) would be very hard to imagine.
If in the end the answer is negative, the world would at least have learned something useful: that these groups' extreme claims are not just rhetorical adornments.
Other religion-at-work arguments are much harder to resolve: whether, for example, medical staff can wear headgear, or crosses, in situations where all adornments would normally be banned on grounds of safety or hygiene.In traditional, cosmopolitan societies (in south Asia and the Middle East, for example) people negotiated daily life by more-or-less knowing what customs their neighbours observed.
Moons, which Earthlings tend to see merely as adornments to the night sky, are just as good a place to look for life as planets are, perhaps even better.
In turn, JAR's jewels will enable them to see the Met's collection "with fresh eyes".These adornments and objets d'art, ranging from an amusing engraved bagel made of wood to a translucent amber pocket watch, occupy a single, spacious oval gallery.
ANNOUNCING the fiercest public-spending cuts in decades in the House of Commons on October 20th, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, played bad cop, listing all the adornments that Britain can no longer afford.
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The screen version of Testament of Youth gilds the lily of Vera Brittain's memoir – though fans of the book may well feel it didn't need so much extra adornment.
And it was the adornment of a place of danger with the memorabilia of attachment and love – kids' clothes, photographs – that touched them, too.
Pat replies that it would be inappropriate to spend the money on "personal adornment "; he will send it to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People instead.There are recollections of a childhood growing up poor in a single-parent family in New York, collecting cents on coke bottles.
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The primary grammatical function of "adornments " is as a plural noun . It refers to multiple decorative items or embellishments used to enhance appearance. Ludwig AI supports this usage, as seen in numerous examples where it functions as the object of a verb or as part of a descriptive phrase.
Expression frequency: Very common
