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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

... Notre Dame rose amidst the austerity of Gothic taste, and were loaded with the riches of Catholic superstition, to that boasted aera, when the loyalty of the French people exhausted the wealth and the genius of the country, to decorate with classic taste the residence of their Sovereigns; and lastly, to those later days, when the names of religion and of loyalty have alike been forgotten; when the national exultation reposed only on the trophies of military greatness, and the iron yoke of imperial ...

— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison

... be better to keep it in the family. It meets your idea; there's considerable money in the thing; and it's patriotic. So, if you say the word, you shall go to Paris, and come back in three years to decorate the capitol of your native State. It's a big chance for you, Loudon; and I'll tell you what—every dollar you earn, I'll put another alongside of it. But the sooner you go, and the harder you work, the better; for if the first half-dozen statues aren't in a line with public ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... When on the scaffold, proud exulter in those by me now detested beauties, remember that it was Joanna Strathearn who laid thy matchless head upon the block; who consigned those limbs, of Heaven's own statuary, to decorate the spires of Scotland! Remember that my curse pursues you, here ...

— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... 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 jumble of human and brute ...

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

... his voice to a whisper. "'Mrs. Milo,' I says to the old lady, 'give me the Church to decorate and I'll make it look like something.' 'My good man,' she come back,—you know the way she talks—'the wedding will be ...

— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates

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