decoration
/ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/ sustantivo B2En español: decoración, condecoración
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
- 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.
- The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
- Refurbishment; renovation
Plural decorations
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This man was dressed in a greatcoat, or rather a surtout, a little worse for the journey, but which exhibited the ribbon of the Legion of Honor still fresh and brilliant, a decoration which also ornamented the under coat.
I have said that a decoration of yew trees circled the garden.
Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue--a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
The actual official guardian of the papers is the famous government expert, Sir James Walter, whose decorations and sub-titles fill two lines of a book of reference.
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