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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

... "Wilt thou decorate the room with the evergreens for to-morrow? I shall return in time to milk the cows, but they should be ...

— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... it is compared with the splendid presents which were offered either by the hand, or by order, of the emperor, to all the celebrated places of devotion in the Roman world; and with the sums allotted to repair and decorate the ancient temples, which had suffered the silent decay of time, or the recent injuries of Christian rapine. Encouraged by the example, the exhortations, the liberality, of their pious sovereign, the cities and families resumed the practice of their neglected ceremonies. ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... the eighteenth century, nevertheless absolutely revel in material furnished by that time; the gentlemen in wigs have become their most profitable heroes, and in real life, as well as in our novels, we can find no more modern way to decorate our parlors and our furniture than by covering them with the scroll work of the wig-age. This is only an apparent contradiction. It is not the Pigtail but the Rococo that we are reviving so industriously, not the academic constraint of rules, but the subjective arbitrariness, the spirit ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... as pleased as she ever allowed herself to look over anything a man suggested. It was the delight of her heart to plan and decorate and contrive. Her own house was a model of comfort and good taste, and Miss Sally was quite ready for new worlds to conquer. Instantly Eden assumed importance in her eyes. She might be sorry for the misguided bride who was rashly ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... singular band we note but eleven professed laborers, four carpenters, one blacksmith, one bricklayer, and one mason: but we are not surprised to find a barber to aid in making the toilet of the "gentlemen," a tailor to decorate their persons, and a drummer to contribute to their ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various

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