different between adornment vs bauble

English

Etymology

adorn +? -ment

Noun

adornment (countable and uncountable, plural adornments)

1. A decoration; that which adorns.

   The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.

2. The act of decorating.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?b??b??]
• (Scots) IPA^(key): [?b?b??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?b?l/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?b?b?l/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -??b?l
• Homophone: bobble (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

bauble (plural baubles)

1. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
   • 1818, Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8

     as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.

   • 1977, Jimmy Webb, "Highwayman" (song):

     Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

2. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.

Synonyms

• (showy ornament): See also: Thesaurus:trinket

Translations

Further reading

• bauble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bauble in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• bubale