The word "ornament" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a decoration, usually used to enhance aesthetic appeal. For example: "The Christmas tree was adorned with a variety of colorful ornaments."
If you can afford it, a good Swiss-made watch is a handsome thing to own – watches being, for most men, the only way to ornament themselves these days, eyebrow rings being so passé.
4eecd7c1-f024-4ed4-9954-8afb034917d3 When my wife told me she wanted a dog, I briefly imagined a kind of walking ornament that would lie at my feet in the evenings and come with me to the shops.
It doesn't take much to work out how it earned its name, with a terrain of dunes gliding into sandstone crags, the only ornament a frosting of salt left by a freakish rainstorm two years ago.
In their entry to the competition, Page\Park undertook a forensic deconstruction of a single bay of the library, examining every joint and unpicking the tricks of structure and ornament that Mackintosh deployed.
Handsome French cultural centres ornament the capitals of the region: the newest of them will open in Riga, the Latvian capital, in October.
"Trade [with North Korea] is a large part of Dandong's economy," says Wu Yang, owner of an ornament company that uses semi-precious stones from the North.
In the first nine months of this year exports to China of Swiss watches, which had become a common ornament on the wrists of public officials, were more than 10% down on the same period in 2012.
And in August it will launch the Dashboard, a desktop ornament with three large meters that resembles a retro-styled stereo.
Chrysanthemums, sometimes called Japan's national flower, were the inspiration for a splendid diamond-set dress ornament by Vever (pictured).
But the very intimacy of Klimt's sensuous sketches opens up a new dimension of this artist and his ability to convey delicate emotions in a deviously arched eyebrow or pursed lip.An exhibition at the Musée Maillol in Paris brings together some 120 erotic drawings that explore the naked female form without the ornament or adornment that is typical of the artist's better-known works.
There are also miniature paintings and a single, twinkling turban ornament.
