Definition of "ornee" [ornee]

• Alternative spelling of orné. (adjective)

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• "It was probably the first shot fired in the movement towards the ferme ornee, when the farm-became-the-garden-became-the farm, for which the Shelby Farms plans are a startling endpoint."
• "Newport, stands WESTHILL, a charming cottage-ornee in the centre of a smooth sloping lawn interspersed with magnificent elms and close shrubberies."
• "It may be presumed that nothing like it was ever seen in Abyssinia before; for the mission not merely built, but furnished it with couches, ottomans, chairs, tables, and curtains; doubtless a very showy affair, though we camot exactly comprehend the author's expression of its being furnished after the manner of an English cottage ornee."