The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ornature \Or"na*ture\, n. [L. ornatura.]
Decoration; ornamentation. [R.]
--Holinshed.
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n. (context archaic English) decoration; ornamentation
Usage examples of "ornature".
Geffry Chaucer and John Gowre, in the time of Richard the Second, and after them of John Scogan and John Lydgate, monke of Berrie, our said toong was brought to an excellent passe, notwithstanding that it never came unto the type of perfection until the time of Queen Elizabeth, wherein John Jewell, Bishop of Sarum, John Fox, and sundrie learned and excellent writers, have fully accomplished the ornature of the same to their great praise and mortal commendation.
With my eyes fixed on my plate, I listened to his ornature for at least ten minutes, which is a long time for a speech at a domestic table.
Their ornature and decking with woorkes, and deuises imitating the apparreling of princely bodies indewed as it were with an artificiall reason.