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Definition of Decorations
1. decoration [n] - See also: decoration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decorations
Literary usage of Decorations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition by Edward Henry Knight (1880)
"To this time, I am entirely without information official, or unofficial, aa to
what decorations, if any, will bo given. It is the common opinion, however, ..."
2. Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1898)
"Any one who wore too many decorations at once was said to ' Peucker.' On the
occasion of a morning visit, I found him standing before a table on which lay ..."
3. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to by Andrew Jackson Downing (1844)
"Decorations can never be introduced with good effect, when they are at variance
with the character of surrounding objects. A beautiful Grecian villa may, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"The Decorations by George Cruikshank. 8vo. pp. 432. London: Vizetelly. AT any
rate this volume is a beautiful specimen of typography; so beautiful, ..."
5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"His thor- ough mastery of the technique and traditions of his art is shown by
his well considered and harmonious decorations in a large number of public and ..."
6. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1848)
"NOTE I.—SHIELDS AS SEPULCHRAL Decorations. THE shields carved or painted in this
... The analogous use of them as external decorations of sepulchres by the ..."
7. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The decorations contain many allusions to the favourite pursuits of Leo X.
Music is symbolized by many representations of instruments; fishes, birds, ..."
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