8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
noun something used to beautify
verb make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
verb be an ornament to
originFrom Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
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