Crossword clues for beautification
beautification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
beautification \beau`ti*fi*ca"tion\ n. the act of making something more beautiful.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from beauty + -fication.
Wiktionary
n. Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
WordNet
n. the act of making something more beautiful
Wikipedia
Beautification is the process of making visual improvements to a person, place, or thing. With regard to a town, city, or urban area, this most often involves planting trees, shrubbery, and other greenery, but frequently also includes adding decorative or historic-style street lights and other lighting and replacing broken pavement, often with brick or other natural materials. Old-fashioned cobblestones are sometimes used for crosswalks; they provide the additional benefit of slowing motorists.
Beautification projects are often undertaken by city councils to refurbish their downtown areas, in order to boost tourism or other commerce. Often, this is also spurred by broken sidewalks, which pose a safety hazard for pedestrians and potentially insurmountable obstacles for wheelchair users. These projects are frequently part of other larger projects such as construction, especially in conjunction with ones for transit, such as streets and roads and mass transit.
The Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1853, is the oldest incorporated village beautification society in the United States. The Memphis City Beautiful Commission, the oldest city beautification project in the United States, was established in 1930.
Usage examples of "beautification".
But in addition to the usual causesnew band uniforms and computers for the public library and funds for the Legion Auxiliary summer beautification project-every game, every booth, was pledging money to the effort to find Josh.
This fracas began when Lena mentioned the extremely highbrow and expensive beautification and body-reducing establishment which Pat conducted on Park Avenue.
Jezebel was mighty proud of her inheritance from her pappy and in a pathetic fit of beautification planted a few geranimus and pansies in the hard packed ground fronting the splintery porch of the dwelling.
He rode the slidewalks and escalators until, half a mile above the ground, he came to his regular Tuesday-evening eateasy, a swank and illegal little restaurant with a grubby exterior that proclaimed to all nonmembers that it was a branch of a silicone surgery beautification chain.
Finally, when she had run out of ablutions and could find no further acts of purification or beautification to perform, she reached for her nightgown and slipped it on.
Since I have been here the beautification of his garden has been his chief object, and he has made a very respectable waterfall, a rushing stream, a small lake, a rustic bamboo bridge, and several grass banks, and has transplanted several large trees.
Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a two-story stucco monument to bad taste that had somehow escaped every Hollywood beautification project to date.
She began a beautification program that spread wiidflowers along thousands of miles of U.
Water bill, a public service announcement about Park Beautification Week, and a letter from Morocco.
The demon knew at once who they were, because he had been a classical scholar before becoming doorman to an afterlife beautification service.
Straightening teeth, in Hoke's opinion, came under beautification, and was not a necessary medical expense.