ornament
n. C / Un. a small, pretty object you use to decorate a room or a tree. It is usually there just to look nice, not to be useful.
n. an object or feature used to add decorative value to something else rather than for functional purposes. In music, refers to notes added to a melody to provide embellishment.
She placed a small glass ornament on the shelf.
During the holidays, the family gathers to hang every traditional ornament on the tree.
The architect argued that the building's beauty should come from its proportions rather than from any applied ornament or superficial decoration.
From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Countable when referring to physical objects; uncountable when referring to the abstract quality of decoration.