ornature

English

Etymology

From Latin ornatura.

Noun

ornature

1. (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:

     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

ōrnātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrnātūrus