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Answer for the clue "Decorating with a design ", 10 letters:
figuration

Word definitions for figuration in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Figuration may refer to: In classical music, the use of repetitive patterns: Figure (music) Figurative art , artwork that is derived from real object sources

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Figuration \Fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. figuratio.] The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. --Bacon. (Mus.) Mixture of concords and discords.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. 2 Mixture of concords and discords.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory decorating with a design

Usage examples of figuration.

Of the other two, one was ideogrammatic, the figuration of ideas, and the other alphabetic, the representation of spoken sounds.

In the second strophe the soprano voice takes the melody, which is supported by rare harmonies and a lovely figuration in the alto.

Of the other two, one was ideogrammatic, the figuration of ideas, and the other alphabetic, the representation of spoken sounds.

Music does not consist only in those purely intellectual oscillations and figurations which we have abstracted from it.