Many of the ornamentations on their swords, vases, and other articles, are supposed by some writers to be religious symbols.
We remember the ornamentationson implements in the Paleolithic Age was by engraving animal forms.
We recall that the ornamentations on the vessels of clay made by Mound Builders were either incised lines or indentations on the surface of the vessels.
Mr. Digby Wyatt says of the Casa Alba, in his Architect's Note Book in Spain, that this is one of the rare instances of Renaissance ornamentations executed by Moorish workmen.
The ornate carved doors, and the plateresque ornamentations of the masonry are highly decorative, and the marble floors and vaulted ceiling within should be seen.
Rough ornamentations on bone and wooden implements are their only artistic efforts.
They were all dressed in long yellowish gowns, with rough white and red ornamentations on a patch of blue cloth, on their backs; and each girl took a very active part in a game, or a kind of savage dance, called Tapkara.
The ornamentations on the atzis of Ainu who have no Japanese needles are necessarily a great deal coarser and simpler than those which are done with steel needles and cotton threads.
The principal characteristics of the more usualornamentations are interesting to study.
For men it is the trunk of a tree, about six feet in length, from which the bark has been peeled off, and whereon certain ornamentations are cut.
Some of the fragments had rough line ornamentations on them.
It took the man many months to accomplish, and it is by far the best specimen of Ainu workmanship that I saw in Yezo, though the ornamentations on it are not purely Ainu in character.
A well-finished pattern has not preceded a more simple one; circular ornamentationsare of a later date than ornamentations with straight lines.
To these typical ornamentations belong the lotus flower and the tree and serpent ornament.
The principles of decoration with the Assyrians far surpass mere ornamentations in geometrical patterns.
By degrees a clearer understanding of the laws of ornamentation is perceptible; the ornamentation becomes restricted to the bulge, whilst rings, meanders, and floral ornamentations mark the upper and lower parts of the vessel.
Where the old kitchen once stood an American has built a house out of the old bricks, using many of the ornamentations and stone gargoyles found about the place.
They sought symmetry as well as the beautifying of their homes, covering them with ornamentations and sculpture in wood and stone.
In fact, the characteristics of this building are its points: the windows are shaped in carved points, and so are the ornamentations on the projecting buttresses.
It possesses a spacious verandah painted bright blue, and two windows at each side with elaborate ornamentations similarly coloured red and blue.
They showed me their rifles--English Martinis with additional gold ornamentations of lion and sun, such as one sees in thousands all over Persia.
While I was waiting for fresh horses to be got ready I amused myself at every station studying the curious inscriptions and ornamentationsby scribbling travellers on the caravanserai and post-house walls.
The several inscriptions I found at Zaidan, photographs of which I have given in this book, were, as we have seen, in Arabic; the ornamentations of which I took tracings were Arabic in character.
Inscriptions andornamentations on Chappar-Khana walls, i.
On the summit, above a broad band with ornamentations and a much worn inscription can be seen the fragments of two smaller structures, also cylindrical, which may have been the supports of the dome of the minaret.
A handsome cathedral, with elaborate ornamentations and allegorical pictures, is one of the principal structures in Julfa.
On the middle of the sleeves were a number of superposed T's made of ribbon bands and with delicate ornamentations round them, such as little squares with radiating threads, a frieze going all round the arm, and parallel lines.
There were two red and blue small circular ornamentations at the bottom of the coat in front, and one in the centre of the back, as on Japanese kimonos.
Many of the pieces of marble in the heap contained ornamentations such as successions of the heart pattern, graceful curve scrolls suggesting leaves, and also regular leaf patterns.
The lower portion of this picture is in good preservation, but the upper part has been patched up with hideous ornamentations of birds and flowers on red ground.
White ground, with ornamentationsin black, as seen in Fig.
There is an exuberance of runs and ornamentations until the first feeling of elation lapses into a second dreamy, languorous waltz melody, as if the dancers were floating on the scented atmosphere of the ballroom.
We are told that the ancient Aztecs excelled in one branch of art above all others; namely, in the production of scenes and various ornamentations in feather work, the effect of which is similar to Florentine mosaic.
Here Maximilian expended half a million dollars in gaudy ornamentations and radical alterations to suit his lavish desires.
Originally, no doubt, these ornamentations were intended as means of magic, but they came more and more to serve the purposes of decoration.
Even to-day it would be considered a wonderful piece of work, with its ornamentations of gold showing scroll patterns and musical designs.
The only ornamentations are the elaborate columns that define the fireplace and panelling.
A large bookcase showing torch ornamentations contains rare books that cannot be duplicated.
The mantel is one of McIntire's best, the central feature being a basket of flowers with festoonedornamentations on either side.
It is in constant ebullition, and has the same ornamentations as the one just described.
At the base of the principal terrace is a large area covered with shallow pools some of them containing water, with all the ornamentations perfect, while others are fast going to decay, and the decomposed sediment is as white as snow.
Two handles with rough line ornamentations are added to the larger vessels, but one suffices for the jars with longer neck and small aperture.
It has the lotus pattern in the centre and leafornamentations filled in with lines radiating from a parent stem.
The apparels, according to Druitt, are possibly the remains of the purple bands and other ornamentations of the Roman tunic, from which we have seen that the albe was derived.
At Eton, on the Fourth of June, in connection with the boating there are interesting ornamentations added to the straw hats in the shape of flowers, and three boys who act as coxswains wear the uniform of an admiral and carry bouquets.
The balustrades, together with the ornamentations of garlands of fruits and flowers, convey the joyous note of a carnival.
The sculpturedornamentations of the portal are the work of Ralph Stackpole.
White ornamentations are used over it, to hide any defects.
Illustrations also should be introduced according to the subject, and the ornamentations be also adapted to, and harmonize with, the whole.
Hooker's green or cobalt ornamentations on the emerald.
The ornamentations are not so softly executed, nor is the outline as graceful as in the former.
The ornamentations show best on them when relieved, by placing "casting shadows" under the flowers, scrolls, etc.
With ornamentations the same rule applies; trace only as much as will secure your object.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ornamentations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
