Crossword-Solution: DECORATION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decoration | n. | The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| Decoration | n. | That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. |
| Decoration | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECORATION | anagram | CAROTENOID, COORDINATE |
We have 109 clues for the answer “DECORATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Victoria Cross | 1 answer |
| What the "Purple Heart" is. | 1 answer |
| George Cross | 2 answers |
| Cordon bleu | 3 answers |
| Interior decoration | 3 answers |
| Congressional Medal | 3 answers |
| Medal of Honor | 3 answers |
| Medal of Honour | 3 answers |
| smocking | 4 answers |
| Fancywork | 5 answers |
| Appliqué | 5 answers |
| Finishing touch | 7 answers |
| Mosaic | 7 answers |
| Vignette | 7 answers |
| ornateness | 9 answers |
| arabesque | 10 answers |
| Blue-ribbon | 10 answers |
| Enamel | 10 answers |
| Piping | 11 answers |
| Ennoblement | 12 answers |
| Icing | 12 answers |
| Blue ribbon | 13 answers |
| dignification | 13 answers |
| chevron | 13 answers |
| Garter | 13 answers |
| prominency | 14 answers |
| Enhancement | 15 answers |
| Ruffles | 15 answers |
| Drapery | 15 answers |
| moulding | 15 answers |
| token of office | 16 answers |
| Laurels | 17 answers |
| Nimbus | 17 answers |
| blaze of glory | 17 answers |
| Wallpaper | 18 answers |
| Decor | 19 answers |
| Wreath | 19 answers |
| honours | 20 answers |
| bays | 21 answers |
| frieze | 25 answers |
| Halo | 25 answers |
| regalia | 25 answers |
| Garland | 28 answers |
| ANYTHING serving to set off another thing by contrast | 29 answers |
| illumination | 29 answers |
| garnishment | 31 answers |
| glamorisation | 31 answers |
| overstatement | 31 answers |
| Kudos | 31 answers |
| enrichment | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DECORATION (5)
Except for that small expenditure in the decoration of her infant, Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them.
Called after the later and more extreme forms of Baroque architecture and decoration prevalent during the mid-1700s in Europe.
The interior of the building is simple—severely so; but there is no occasion for color and decoration, since the people sit in the dark.
Through all this variety of decoration, however, the room showed its original characteristics; its low stud, its cross-beam, its chimney-piece, with the old-fashioned Dutch tiles; so that it was the emblem of a mind industriously stored with foreign ideas, and elaborated into artificial refinement, but neither larger, nor, in its proper self, more elegant than before.
Hence it came to pass that these two Classes could see no force in the so-called axiom about “Distinction of Sides implying Distinction of Colour;” and when all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of paint.
Quotes with DECORATION (3)
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be …
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel. If the people the writer is making talk of old masters; of music; of modern painting; of letters; or of science then they should talk of those subjects in the novel. If they do not talk of these subjects and…
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Appears in: NYT, S&S.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1943–2005).