Definition of Decoration

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Decoration

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.

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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Decoration Quotations

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
Genevieve Gorder

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Frank Stella

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
Jeffery Veen

Decoration Translations

decoration in Afrikaans is dekor, sieraad
decoration in Danish is dekoration
decoration in Dutch is decor, onderscheiding, decoratie
decoration in German is Dekoration, Verzierung
decoration in Italian is onorificenza
decoration in Norwegian is dekorasjon, pynt
decoration in Swedish is utsmyckning, dekoration, orden

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