ornamentation

But in Clarke’s case, the ornamentation isn’t just to celebrate his service.

Look closely and you’ll see the art deco ornamentation on the Empire State Building is actually dinosaur claws in front of knight shields.

Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.

As presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison observed in 1888: “The bottom principle . . . of our structure of government is the principle of control by the majority. Everything else about our government is appendage, it is ornamentation.”

Why would any self-respecting gay man choose to define himself primarily as a woman’s ornamentation?