Synonym: cosmetic, ornamental. Similar words: decorate, decorated, redecorate, pejorative, corporation, correlative, narrative, imperative. Meaning: ['dekərətɪv] adj. serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose.
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61. The chemical analysis of precious metal artefacts can be difficult because their value and decorative finish usually prevent sampling.
62. Because it is ripstop, and fraying is therefore limited, pinking shears would only be decorative and not at all necessary.
63. Whatever decorative covering had concealed the entrance had likewise rotted into dust.
64. More expensive items in the same range should be finely knotted and possess cleanly articulated and symmetrically arranged decorative forms.
65. It is surprising the difference such a relatively small decorative touch can make to an ordinary room or staircase.
66. The theatre was rebuilt in a heavily ornamental classicist style, complete with doric columns and decorative masks.
67. It looks equally good on a flowery china tea cup or embroidered on a pretty, decorative pillow.
68. Smaller pillows with decorative cases range from about $ 30 to $ 60.
69. A much earlier tradition of decorative stamps on pottery existed free of any Germanic influence.
70. From time to time decorative work was needed: railings, weather vanes, iron gates or scroll work.
71. It is always advisable, however,(http://sentencedict.com) to test your decorative technique on the fabric.
72. You could use them as a decorative device on invitations, or as part of the design on your personal writing paper.
73. This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.
74. For real tux deluxe you can add a spangly corset top, decorative waistcoat and a dandy cravat.
75. The use of these various processes may have provided the vehicles for the transmission of decorative motifs, by copying.
76. Barring power outages, the only use for candles is decorative.
77. Ramblers can be grown as ground cover, weeping standards or decorative espaliers. Shrub roses.
78. It is a minute, very decorative herb with a thin and creeping rooting system.
79. Internally the house is bright and airy with stripped doors and has a light decorative style.
80. The dismantling began on the night of November 9 as hundreds of Berliners chipped away at some of the more decorative chunks.
81. It was drawn by a sleek brown pony, and was painted in decorative blue and gold.
82. All stones are allowed to become covered with aquatic mosses, and the tree roots are covered with decorative ferns.
83. Not all lace was quite so decorative; that provided by Dottridge Brothers in 1922 was really rather crude.
84. Lamps, decorative objects, rugs, wall coverings and fabrics are only a few of the most commonly licensed home furnishings.
85. Museums of design or decorative arts validate their collections in different terms.
86. It is subordinate to the altar and although it may be decorative, it has direction towards the altar.
87. In addition to poems or maxims and decorative motifs, needleworkers frequently incorporated information about their parents and siblings.
88. There's no point in getting all the other decorative details perfect if your plates and knives and forks are all wrong.
89. But his decorative style is as spartan as any Internationalist.
90. Edwin Hodgson, wholesaler of decorative ironmongery, died in 1854 aged thirty-eight.
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