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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ornamentation \Or'na*men*ta"tion\, noun
1. The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
2. That which ornaments. --C. Kingsley.
3. The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively; as, each room of the palace had a strikingly different ornamentation. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ornamentation
noun
1: the state of being ornamented
2: something used to beautify [syn: {decoration}, {ornament}]
3: the act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn: {embellishment}]
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