ornature
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ornature
- (archaic) decoration; ornamentation
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- if you haue regard to their ornature , how manie mines of sundrie kinds of course & fine marble are there to be had in England ?
References edit
- “ornature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Participle edit
ōrnātūre