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garniture

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gar·ni·ture  (gärn-chr)
n.
Something that garnishes; an embellishment.
[French, from Old French, from garnir, to garnish; see garnish.]
garniture [ˈgɑːnɪtʃə]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) decoration or embellishment
[from French, from garnir to garnish]
Garniture the furniture or appurtenances of a table; a kitchen or its apparatus; the harness of a horse or mule.
Examples: garniture of a boiler, 1878; of the kitchen, 1532; of mules, 1670; of sapphires, 1753; of vases—BBC-TV programme, 1983; of violets, 1897.


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He hurried along the terrace-walk, and darted up a flight of broad steps leading into an old and gloomy hall, whose walls were ornamented with rusty suits of armour, antlers, weapons of the chase, and suchlike garniture.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
While they were thus employed, a tallish gentleman with a hook nose and black hair, dressed in a military surtout very short and tight in the sleeves, and which had once been frogged and braided all over, but was now sadly shorn of its garniture and quite threadbare-- dressed too in ancient grey pantaloons fitting tight to the leg, and a pair of pumps in the winter of their existence--looked in at the door and smiled affably.
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Just go and have a look at that garniture de cheminee yonder.
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