17 Metaphors for decoration

Decoration is the science and art of beautifying objects and rendering them more pleasing to the eye.

Its decorations are the decorations of fairyland.

Upon the opening of the chapel door, however, a full tide of light greeted us, admitted by a dormer window, and this displayed an apartment, known by its altar and benches to be appropriated to sacred purposes, the sole decorations of whose plain white-washed walls were some few engravings of madonnas, saints, and holy families, &c., chiefly French, and not particularly beautiful or valuable.

The neglected ivy had overgrown one end of the long stone building and crept almost to the ponderous old chimneys; and this decoration, which had come of itself, was the only spot of greenery about the place.

"DECORATION" FOR PROTECTION Many of the alleged personal "decorations" of inferior races are merely measures to protect themselves against climate, insects, etc.

ELEPHANT, ORDER OF THE WHITE, a Danish order of knighthood, restricted to 30 knights, the decoration of which is an elephant supporting a tower; it was instituted by Canute IV., king of Denmark, at the end of the 12th century.

But presently he was brought back again to his external sight, and introduced into one of the palaces; and he saw the decorations of the gates, the windows, the walls, and the ceilings, and especially of the utensils, over and round about which were celestial forms of gold and precious stones, which cannot be described by any language, or delineated by any art; for they surpassed the ideas of language and the notions of art.

I felt sure that my decoration was the result of his reports upon myself while acting together under very awkward circumstances.

Elaborate decoration was her keynote and she kept well in tune.

The decoration is a great star, studded with diamonds.

The other decorations were neckties and a pink man reading a pink paper devoted to ladies in pink tights.

He received us in his private office, and it was imposing to see that the only decoration was the American flag which covered the desk, and in its centre, a carved wooden frame holding the portrait of our worthy chief.

The high altar is very choice and beautiful; and the contiguous decorations are profuse and exquisite.

But, looking at that small, oval face, those large, flashing black eyes, complexion of red and white, so beautifully blended that it hardly seemed a work of nature, pouting lips, even, white teeth, and heavily braided hair, Maltboy thought that no decorations could be-too gaudy for a creature of such radiant loveliness.

The only decorations not in good taste were the screaming chromos which Don Timoteo had substituted for the old drawings and pictures of saints of Capitan Tiago.

The style is exceedingly chaste and pleasing, and the decorations are characteristic naval emblems, finely executed.

This simple and affecting decoration would have been a fit funeral oration.

17 Metaphors for  decoration