decoration
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin decoratio: compare French décoration
Noun [edit]
decoration (plural decorations)
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- 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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Translations [edit]
act of adorning
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that which adorns
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any mark of honor to be worn upon the person
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References [edit]
- (etymology) decoration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
