Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEC-O-RA'TION
DEC-O-RA'TION, n.
- Ornament; embellishment; any thing added which renders more agreeable to the eye or to the intellectual view.
- In architecture, any thing which adorns and enriches an edifice, as vases, paintings, figures, festoons, &c.
- In theaters, the scenes, which are changed as occasion requires.
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