Sentence examples for ornamental device from inspiring English sources

In the 20th century, the mask increasingly became perceived as chiefly a decorative object, although it has long been used in art as an ornamental device.

Cuff link, small ornamental device, generally a pair of linked buttons or one button that fastens with a bar or shank, inserted through buttonholes to keep the cuff of a shirt or blouse closed.

Loos himself was not averse to employing ornamental devices that had passed into vernacular use.

By Stanley Goodman and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, April 15 , 1950 P. 21A gentleman has handed us a flossy envelope with a lining of greenback green, bearing scrolls and ornamental devices that look something like those on federal currency and even more like those on stock and bond certificates.

Between 751 and 755 he tried to attract imperial attention by submitting a succession of literary products that were couched in a language of ornamental flattery, a device that eventually resulted in a nominal position at court.

At 13, he was apprenticed to a local coach-making firm and showed a flair for ornamental painting: heraldic devices, fancy lettering and so on.

The patent diagrams an "ornamental design for a speaker device" invented by Baback Elmieh, Alexandre Jais and John Proksch-Whaley.

The devices and motifs of ornamental sculpture fall into three main categories: abstract, zoomorphic, and botanical.

There's a musical device called an appoggiatura, an ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound.

what? the word itself false, a device to refute perception-At the intersection, ornamental lights of the season.

Brass of many different chemical compositions can be found in complex engineering devices such as turbines and bearings or in ornamental and housing applications from which, the fabrication of fittings and connections for plumbing purposes are the most common.