A Spanish or Portuguese term for ornament or adornment; also used as a surname, notably of the philosopher Theodor Adorno.
Spanish/Portuguese from Latin 'adornus' (adorned), derived from 'ad-' + 'ornare' (to furnish, equip).
Theodor Adorno was a 20th-century philosopher who wrote about how mass culture ornaments our lives with superficial beauty to distract us from deeper truths—his name literally means the thing he critiqued!
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