Complementing activites have been the implementation of housegardens, nurseries and the production of ornamental plants.
Today, the term encompasses a broader range of ornamental homes, from manors to mansions to chateaux.
His preference was for the wild and natural, not for formality or ornamental flowerbeds.
Horns are also used in the Middle East to make handles for ornamental daggers.
Buenos Aires is plagued by thefts of telephone cables, manhole covers and ornamental plaques.
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Harry also appeared sans sword, but displayed a cross belt, aiguillettes (ornamental braided cords) and sword slings.
The sector, he explains, is driven by collectors' interest in history, ornamental objects and the development of weapons.
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The half-circles near the windows are decorated with a large ornamental motif of deer drinking from a spring.
It is a maze of ornamental hedges and sweet-smelling orange trees, where leaf-carpeted paths meander through the pines.
And the bath provided a powerful walk-in shower, a soaking tub, black marble surfaces and art deco ornamental mirrors.
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You did not consider whether the design elemnts are primary ornamental, did you?
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Mr Jones, whose band wrote the classic Stairway to Heaven, obliged by standing on an ornamental stairway with Mica Ertegun.
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound.
Columns, curved windows, and surrounding ornamental gardens complete with a gazebo and statuary conjure the romance and prosperity of another era.
Arborvitae are among the most common ornamental evergreens some would say too common.
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Whimsical glass pipes from England and Italy are purely ornamental, but striking in their shades of vibrant cobalt blue and ruby red.
In 2009, scores of lawmakers were revealed to have wrongly billed the public for items including pornographic movies and an ornamental duck house.
Each April, the ornamental gardens that replaced the old moat produce yellow and white spring flowers a carpet fit for the burial of a king.
In another corner of the square, under the exquisite ornamental trees, is a campsite where around 400 people have been living for 21 days.
Ornamental tree varieties like Jacaranda were also planted on the terraces to provide shade, as well as palm trees and fruit trees like papaya.
Brown sparrows and squirrels hop between the hothouse flowers and, hidden among the clusters of bamboo and trailing ferns are Victorian grottoes, ornamental fountains and classical busts.
So-called ornamental crops are a popular alternative to conventional food crops.
The picture was taken from the Ornamental Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, an area that is not accessible to the public, up above the Whispering Gallery.
The scoring crown may be viewed as ornamental to die-hard basketball fans and analysts, who recognize that Anthony won the title by playing somewhat less efficiently than Durant.
"All five were ornamental chickens and couldn't get off the ground and the roundabout has no trees with low branches for them to escape from predators, " she said.
In the mid-century Modernists demonstrated "less is more" with nearly no ornamental elements and stark simplicity - think the Google search page prior to all those whimsical banners.
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Following the cigarette-butt controversy, the Paulsens had installed a high fence and planted a line of ornamental spruces that had since grown up enough to screen them from the spectacle.
The plants grow wild along highways and in other spots in the U.S. They are also considered ornamental by some gardeners and are cultivated for medicinal castor oil and other products.
These walls were a testing ground where Aalto experimented with different textures, materials and designs, playing with brick, stone and ceramic swatches and setting them against various finishes and ornamental plants.
In my next dispatch from my backyard Eden, I will discuss coping strategies for when Hurricane Sandy deposits 14 cubic tons of sea salt on your perennials and 50-year-old ornamental cedars.
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