Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
noun
adornment
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryadorned; ornate
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
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