Crossword clues for decorating
decorating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decorate \Dec"o*rate\ (d[e^]k"[-o]*r[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decorated (d[e^]k"[-o]*r[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Decorating (d[e^]k"[-o]*r[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. decoratus, p. p. of decorare, fr. decus ornament; akin to decere to be becoming. See Decent.] To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Her fat neck was ornamented with jewels, rich bracelets
decorated her arms.
--Thackeray.
Syn: To adorn; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace. See Adorn.
Decorated style (Arch.), a name given by some writers to the perfected English Gothic architecture; it may be considered as having flourished from about
d. 1300 to a. d. 1375.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of decorate English)
Usage examples of "decorating".
Arrhyna groaned and raised her head, the curtaining hair parting so that he saw the bruises decorating her face.
Ahead of Flysse, a weeping man turned back, and was forced on at bayonet point, his sobs becoming a shriek of pain as steel pricked his buttocks, decorating his breeches with bloody patches.
Reviewing the events of the previous evening, he had to admit that the decorating beat had its advantages.
Qwilleran, but I read every word you write, and I think your new decorating magazine is simply elegant.
All that plush decorating, and not even a simple buzzer system between the invalid's bed and the sleeping quarters of her devoted husband?
Natalie wants David to get some credit for decorating the house, and Harry Noyton is hoping our story will help him sell the place.
She picked the decorating job, of course, and took out her neuroses on me.
He also answered a few letters from readers who were requesting decorating advice: "May I use a quilted matelass‚ on a small bergŠre?
She had stood on her tiptoes, clinging to the table's edge, and watched as Shea, who made wonderful cakes, practiced making dozens of roses from icing before decorating Maris's wedding cake.
His hair was damp and his face was freshly scraped, with two small nicks decorating his jaw.
How could she concentrate on decorating, anyway, when she had some serious brooding to do?
Milla looked like, and was, the type of woman who preferred to wear a dress instead of pants, who liked cooking and decorating and working with children.
To her surprise, Diaz was watching a decorating show on the Home and Garden Television channel with all the puzzlement of someone from another planet, as if he couldn’t figure out why anyone would want to glue tasseled fringe to a lamp shade.
She would always love dressing up and fussing with her hair, love decorating her surroundings, the way people did in that program that had so bewildered him, but she was a stronger, harder, fiercer woman than she’d been when Justin was snatched from her arms.
And yet, when he saw the scar decorating Davyd's cheek exactly like his own, and the brand on Flysse's arm, he must remember that they were all of them exiles and in the eyes of the Autarchy no different.