ornature

English

Etymology

Latin ornatura.

Noun

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 55195564:
  
  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

ornature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Participle

ōrnātūre

vocative masculine singular of ōrnātūrus

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