adornment

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This was around the time that anti-feminine feminism faded into Third Wave reassessments of girly adornment.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

Canaanland is named for the promised land; its Faith Tabernacle can, and often does, hold 50,000 people in a building that resembles an aircraft hangar, its “almost sterile interior” suggesting that “hope is adornment enough.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

And then with the hair adornment, you have the alligator, you have honey bees.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

He really was a meaningless adornment, like hood adornment.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024

Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare