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Decoration


DECORA'TION, noun

1. Ornament; embellishment; any thing added which renders more agreeable to the eye or to the intellectual view.

2. In architecture, any thing which adorns and enriches an edifice, as vases, paintings, figures, festoons, etc.

3. In theaters, the scenes, which are changed as occasion requires.