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Definition of Overdecorated
1. overdecorate [v] - See also: overdecorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdecorated
Literary usage of Overdecorated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1906)
"5, tho overdecorated, is a typical illustration. It shows the lip of the form
supported by a border and the handles strengthened by a linear pattern. ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"As a group these pictures may suggest to most readers nothing more than a rather
formless —even painful—reaction against the overdecorated "showhouse" style ..."
3. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"Upon this second line his two chief objects of attack were the unnatural,
overdecorated diction and the unjustified emotionality of his enemies' "splay-foot ..."
4. The New Movement in the Theatre by Sheldon Cheney (1914)
"... restful and harmonious throughout: that are not overdecorated and vulgarly
ornate. The name of Professor Max Litt-' mann immediately comes to mind as ..."
5. Early American Craftsmen by Walter Alden Dyer (1915)
"... to the heavy and nondescript veneered style of the time when the cholera first
appeared in New York. From 1833 to 1840 or 1845 the overdecorated and ..."
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