decoration
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- n something used to beautify
- n an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- n the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
- Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations.
- To wear the valor decorations, as Boorda did, amounted to a kind of moral plagiarism--a theft of other men's honor, and therefore a debasing of the coin rewarding their courage.
- Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same.