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Decorate

verb

(past & past part. decorated; pres. part. decorating)

Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.. Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament. "Beautify yourself for the special day"

Be beautiful to look at. Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace.

Award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to.

Provide with decoration. Synonym: dress.

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"Decorate" Quotes from Famous Books

... of California is kind to California's children, and a house of dried mud will withstand the scanty rains of a century. Some of these old chapels are still used, but the roofs of most of them have long since fallen in, and the ornaments have been removed to decorate some other building. The mission churches were built like mimic cathedrals, cathedrals of mud instead of marble, and, like their great models, each had its altar, with candles and crucifix, its vessels of holy water, and on the walls the inevitable paintings of heaven and purgatory. Their ...

— The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches • David Starr Jordan

... garden front of Windsor Castle, taken from an Illustrated London News, but embellished with many Indian characteristics. The purely decorative part of these wall pictures is often graceful and harmonious, and one can look forward to the day when the Christian Indian artist will joyfully decorate, in his own traditional style, the bare white walls of the village Church of St Crispin, and beautiful saints and angels will take the place ...

— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... one takes away from it the diplomatic ornaments with which the Chancelleries are wont to decorate it, dates from a century back. It is, let us hope, the final revolt of the nations oppressed by the unjust work of the ...

— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

... depressing than London. I don't know how to put it, but the whole big concern seemed to have no soul in it, to be like a big factory instead of a city. You won't make a factory look like a house, though you decorate its front and plant rose-bushes all round it. The place depressed and yet cheered me. It somehow made ...

— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... figures scattered throughout the first seven cases are all Egyptian deities with their appropriate symbols, including those in porcelain and stone with holes bored in them for the purpose of attaching them to mummy bandages; those in wood which were carved generally to decorate tombs, and those in bronze which were the household gods. It would be impossible for the general visitor to examine this collection in detail, but he may notice the chief deities with the extraordinary ...

— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold

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