decorate
• verb 1 make more attractive by adding ornamentation. 2 apply paint or wallpaper to. 3 confer an award or medal on. 4 Decorated denoting a stage of English Gothic church architecture of the 14th century with elaborate tracery. — ORIGIN Latin decorare ‘embellish’, from decus ‘honour or embellishment’.
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