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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ornament .
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Examples
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The volume contains the Four Gospels in Latin, ornamented with extraordinary freedom, elaboration, and beauty.
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He straightened himself up quickly after the low bow, putting his hand with a graceful ease on the hilt of his heavy short sword ornamented with brilliantly dyed fringes of horsehair.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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It was a sword ornamented with diamonds, and he received it from the hand of the King.
The Story of Versailles Francis Loring Payne
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The churches are grand and highly ornamented, which is, indeed, common to
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A ponderous cornice richly ornamented, which is now almost gone, runs over this series of sculptures.
Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
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He straightened himself up quickly after the low bow, putting his hand with a graceful ease on the hilt of his heavy short sword ornamented with brilliantly dyed fringes of horsehair.
Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890
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He won at the Duc d'Epernon's sufficient to pay his debts, to dress magnificently, to purchase all sorts of extravagant finery, a sword ornamented with diamonds -- ` and after all these expenses, 'he says, ` I had still five or six thousand crowns (two to three thousand pounds) left, * to kill time with, pour tuer le temps.'
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Then was seen on the altar a miter glittering with precious stones, and a large sword ornamented with fleur-de-lis.
Chicot the Jester Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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The churches are grand and highly ornamented, which is, indeed, common to
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Complete [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
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The churches are grand and highly ornamented, which is, indeed, common to
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 2 [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584
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