Word Finder - decorations

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The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

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That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.

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Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.

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The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host

You don't have to spend a fortune to find Thanksgiving table decorations.

There were no traditional decorations such as pictures or mirrors on the walls, but colorful cords and streams of what might have been silk edging the corners and dangling from high ceilings.

Easter decorations have distinctive motifs like other holiday themes.

They are to be distinguished from Christian catacombs only by the character of their decorations, the absence of Christian symbols and the language of their inscriptions.

They used these precious metals in decorations and as ornaments, but apparently attached no great value to them.

In the beginning of the 19th century worked ShOkwasai, who frequently collaborated with the metal-worker Shibayama, encrusting his lacquer with small decorations in metal by the latter.

The traditions agree with the monuments, whatever may be objected to assigning any one ruin to the Toltec, the Chichimec or the Nahuatl, that there are distinct varieties in ground-plan, motives, stone-craft, wall decorations and sculptures.

Personal ornaments and decorations of dwellings, furniture, vehicles and pottery had once a consecrating, or - what often comes to the same thing - a prophylactic value and significance.

The splendid decorations of the interior are ascribed.

Under the masonic aprons and insignia he saw the uniforms and decorations at which they aimed in ordinary life.

Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.

Feel free to mix and match colors to complement the rest of your decorations.

However, even if you are shopping in the run up to the holiday, a range of stores catering to all budgets offer Thanksgiving table decorations.

Depending on the age of your children, you can enlist their help in certain aspects of the overall planning and selecting of decorations for their room.

Fleur de lis decorations can be found in many homes and gardens.

Because the design is so popular, fleur de lis decorations can be found in all sorts of home stores - they don't have to be ones that sell French or French-style items.

One of the great things about the fleur de lis decorations is that it has been around for hundreds of years and has always remained popular.

Ideas for Easter table decorations can be whimsical or elegant, depending on your personal style.

Easter egg trees are very popular ideas for Easter table decorations.

Avoid a lot of curved lines and over-the-top decorations.

Beach theme bathroom decorations are very popular and easy to come by.

You can also use beach theme bathroom decorations such as towel bars and hardware.

When it comes to beach theme bathroom decorations, there are plenty of options.

Fleur de lis images can be found in fabrics, tiles, sinks and household decorations.

Home decorations made with seashells are commonplace along coastal areas.

Formal winter decorations don't necessarily cost more than informal ones.

There are several elements you want to include in your formal winter decorations.

These elements will give your decorations a high-style and chic formal look.

Then came the scandal of the decorations in which President Grevy's son-in-law Daniel Wilson figured, and the Rouvier cabinet fell in the attempt to screen the president.

In the Barbargia the men have a white shirt, a black or red waistcoat and black or red coat, often with open sleeves; the cut and decorations of these vary considerably in the different districts.

The president of the Republic has a military household, and the minister a cabinet, both of which are occupied chiefly with questions of promotion, patronage and decorations.

But, if the Saracen gave the lines of the building, the Greek gave the mosaic decorations of its walls.

Among private residences, the mansion built by Dr Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy, is the most noteworthy; its decorations are in the Pompeian style.

The original entrance to the cemetery leads directly into a spacious corridor with no loculi, but recesses for sarcophagi, and decorations of the classical style of the 2nd century.

He rose to great celebrity as an architect, and designed many graceful and richly sculptured buildings in Venice, Rome and even in France; he used classical forms with great taste and skill, and with much of the freedom of the older medieval architects, and was specially remarkable for his rich and delicate sculptured decorations.

The designs for these decorations, like those of the sword ornaments, were adopted from the great schools of painting, but the invention of the sculptor was by no means idle.

There, also, is the refined and spirited figure of "Cimabue" in mosaic. In Lyndhurst church are mural decorations to the memory of Mr Pepys Cockerell, illustrating "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins."

He was a member of the Institut de France and received several French and foreign decorations.

Its catkins are collected in England in celebration of Palm Sunday, the bright-coloured flowers being available in early spring when other decorations of the kind are scarce.

The dome is an unsuitable addition of 1731 by the Sicilian architect Filippo Juvara (1685-1735), and its baroque decorations spoil the effect of the fine Gothic interior.

In the Lower Silurian formation at Plattsburg and Chazy, in Clinton county, are two beautiful grey or grey and pink marbles, one of which is a favourite among domestic marbles for mantels, table tops and other interior decorations.

Fringes, tassels, little bells and the like were used as decorations of the ends of stoles at least as early as the 9th century; but crosses in the middle and at the ends were rarely added during the middle ages.

To decorations and official recognitions he was notoriously indifferent.

Maria in Valle belongs to the 8th century, and contains fine decorations in stucco which probably belong to the 11th or 12th century.

But though the plan shows no imitation of the great Byzantine church, the decorations of the interior (mosaics, frescoes, &c.) do indicate direct Byzantine influence.

Of the fresco and stucco decorations of the walls and ceilings, less is naturally preserved.

In the Griine Gewolbe (Green Vault) of the Royal Palace, so called from the character of its original decorations, there is an unequalled collection of precious stones, pearls and works of art in gold, silver, amber and ivory.

The Freiburg minster is considered one of the finest of all the Gothic churches of Germany, being remarkable alike for the symmetry of its proportions, for the taste of its decorations, and for the fact that it may more correctly be said to be finished than almost any other building of the kind.

For other decorations, see under Medals.

Besides the above Bavaria possesses the Military Order of Maximilian Joseph, 1806, and the Civil Orders of Merit of St Michael, 1693, and of the Bavarian Crown, 1808, and other minor orders and decorations, civil and military.