ornament

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Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

These days, Art Deco can mean anything from a one-of-a-kind, early-1920s French cabinet, inlaid with ebony-and-ivory flowers, to a Depression-era Buick hood ornament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

To begin with, the pair's practice focused on sleek, stripped-down buildings with little or no ornament, in which a structure's function was meant to dictate its form.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien