hood ornament

1. 1.

   an ornament on the front of the hood of a car emblematic of the manufacturer

   Broaderdecoration

   Part ofhood

Questions about hood ornament

What does hood ornament mean?

hood ornament means "an ornament on the front of the hood of a car emblematic of the manufacturer".

Is hood ornament a common word?

hood ornament is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.