What is "decorated"

Usage examples of "decorated".

To hear that from a decorated Bureau veteran is an indication of the atmosphere of fear that exists among FBI street agents today - the fear that expressing even modest disagreement with a supervisor, or staying loyal to an asset the way Nancy Floyd had, might result in an investigation with career-ending implications.

The lobby of the PennDutch, along with all its rooms, is decorated with genuine Amish furniture and tools.

She led Andi through a tasteful living room with dark hardwood floors, low tables with large, colorful porcelain vases decorated with dragons and gilded phoenixes.

Vincenzo equally invariably donned a rough-looking black leather jacket, the back of which was decorated with an oval of shiny metal studs surrounding a painted image of the official club logo and the heading BFC 1909.

After Danlo knocked at the door, Bardo invited Danlo inside into a room decorated with rich furniture and rare works of art.

It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery.

The parkas were richly decorated with beadwork of bone, ivory, shell, animal teeth, and black-tipped white ermine tells.

Red hips and haws decorated the hedgerows and fallen leaves and beechnut casings strewed the driveway up to the big house.

These corpulent warriors, who at Calais shortly before had run till overtaken by nervous prostration and general debility, now wore more millinery and breastpins and slashed velvet and satin facings and tinsel than the most successful and highly painted and decorated courtesans of that period.

By the end of the Cretaceous, modern plants such as magnolias, buttonwood trees, and the rose family decorated the landscape.

She fussed with a spray of tulips she had put in a vase next to the couch, as well as the assortment of roses she had bought to fill a cachepot that decorated another tabletop.

The women in the souvenir shops offered bowls and boxes decorated with elaborate cherry- and camphorwood inlay.

The chapel, a glittering little palace decorated with a lot of crystals and candles, was tucked away on a side street just off the Strip.

Sideboards, candlestands of gold, mirrors and tapestries decorated the place.

The best known on the shores of the Vistula are: the miraculous Cagliostro: Boisson de Quency, grand charlatan, soldier of fortune, decorated with many orders, member of numerous Academies: the Venetian Casanova of Saint-Gall, a true savant, who fought a duel with Count Branicki: the Baron de Poellnitz .