The word "ornamentation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to decorative elements added to enhance the appearance of something.
Example: "The ornamentation on the building's facade added a touch of elegance to the overall design."
Alternatives: "Decoration" or "Embellishment."
"Males typically invest more energy into growing their ornamentation," said Saitta.
This is no great surprise, since it is usually the male of any dimorphic species who is encumbered with any expensive ornamentation.
Little about his ornamentation hints at Mr Shi's 18 years in America, where, like thousands of Chinese students, he decamped for graduate study in the early 1990s.
The sculptor's face is often bearded and not at all like his own, yet no matter the ornamentation or disguise, the fantasy heightens the impact of this story and their love affair.
The exhibition has abundant examples, ranging from the visually powerful, if conceptually primitive, iron statuettes used in religious rituals, to many elaborate golden jewels with ornamentation showing animals and birds.Among the most delightful is a necklace of gold beads from which hang gold turtles (pictured above).
To most foreigners, its faux-diamond ornamentation is egregiously kitschy.
It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.
This is the fossilised ornamentation of a dinosaur called Stygimoloch spinifer.
The silver and ebony…from Egypt…the ornamentation from Ionia…the ivory…from Ethiopia and from Sind and from Arachosia….
It contains valuable information on ornamentation and performance practices of the 18th century.
The ornamentation on an ossuary from Bia Naiman (State Hermitage Museum) has so many points in common with the decorations on a series of silver vessels that were, until recently, assigned to Bactria that the latter have come to be accepted as Sogdian.
