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perornatio

perornatio [ML < CL per-+ornatio] 1 complete adornment, beautification, decoration: a (of book); b (of building). a vitam ‥ Albani de Latino in vulgare nostrum ‥ traductam ‥ circa paracionem, ~onemque expendisse fertur ‥ ultra summam trium librarum Reg. Whet. I 427.  b fieri fecit pro ea [sc. camera] ‥ satis decentes ~ones MonA II 199a; s1438 erexit capellulam circa cujus erectionem et ~onem pro celebracioni ultra septuaginta quatuor libras legitur expendisse Amund. II 198. 2 (rhet.) ornamentation, eloquence. ~onis rethorice dicta non habeam Meaux III 237.

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