How To Use Decorative In A Sentence

The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
Ice the sides with the chocolate icing, then pipe a decorative border of chocolate icing around the top, encircling the coconut topping.
Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
Period features throughout include marble fireplaces and decorative plasterwork. Times, Sunday Times
Once you have a theme in mind, take a moment to inventory the decorative objects you already have around your house, then hit secondhand stores to complete the look you've chosen.
Features include mouldings, polished timber floors, high ceilings and decorative plasterwork.
The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
Although fruits added to jellies in the way just described are chiefly for decorative effect, they do add very greatly to the pleasure of eating them; but jellied fruits, as distinguished from _fruits in jelly_, are a delicious mode of eating fruit, and where it is in abundance afford a pleasant variety. Choice Cookery
Decorated in pale green, it has decorative ceiling plasterwork, a white marble fireplace and French doors to the back garden.
The metal band around the mouth is made of a copper alloy. Apart from its decorative use, it also smoothed the rough, unglazed rim.
This two bedroom duplex apartment has a private entrance hall and retains original Victorian features including high ceilings, decorative architraves and period fireplaces.
One of the greatest comprehensive collections of the decorative arts, natural history, geology and technology in the United Kingdom.
Banish thoughts of decorative church kneelers, of draped antimacassars or folklorish costumes. Times, Sunday Times
When my pudding arrived I was at first disappointed to see that the custard was just a decorative swirl.
Symmetric and geometric designs are the most common features of Belarusan decorative patterns.
This period ushered in the flowering of so-called grotesque ornamentation, where erotic hybrids abounded in uninhibited decorative fantasies.
House retains period features such as decorative tiled floors and sash windows. Times, Sunday Times
Even if you don't own a bird, these splendid cages make for unusual and decorative souvenirs with a distinctively Chinese look.
The Wikipedia entry on the subject's fascinating in the extreme: * Decorative stone features of Greek temples such as mutules, guttae, and modillions that are derived from true structural/functional features of the early wooden temples Boing Boing
It is a natural part of civilisation's lust of re-arrangement that we should be so ready to conventionalise the beauty of this world into decorative patterns for our pilgrim tents. The Roadmender
Also unique to Portugal are the decorative tiles known as azulejos.
His stylish and decorative mythological paintings, tapestry cartoons, and designs for porcelain provided the setting for the lives of the rich and fashionable.
Try pin-tucking fabric, or couching down decorative threads, embroider by hand or by machine on the fronts, or even try beading an evening vest.
Despite being so decorative, netsuke were practical objects.
The grand entrance had been smeared with paint and graffiti while a unique Victorian glass lantern roof had been smashed letting water pour on to the decorative floors below.
Infinity pools (where the edges overflow with water) blur the boundary between swimming pool and decorative water feature.
We also specialize in precast concrete production like kerb, paving block, decorative block, roofing tile , road barrier, channel cover and grasscrete etc.
SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
More firmly grounded in Hawaiian culture is the lei, a colorful wreath of fresh flowers or other decorative objects worn around the neck.
The application is decorative, not structural, as evidenced by the metal straps suspending the logs.
Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes, interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.
Be prepared instead for some rather more unusual ways of adorning nature such as spikes for hedges and fences, and decorative chokers and collars for branches or you could even crown the bean poles with a conical finial pot.
Save decorative fonts for recipe titles or chapter headings.
The decorative plasterwork bubbled and decayed; ceilings were held up by scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
Proud mums made the decorative costumes and one even volunteered her services as a pianist.
The figure, wearing the distinctive mitre - the ceremonial hat of a bishop - replaces an eroded piece of decorative stonework.
It used to be that the Vice President was expendable, relatively unimportant and rather decorative.
All of the Royal Dancers and some of the courtiers would be participating, the courtiers as a kind of untrained, minimally-moving background to the Dancers, all two hundred of them, who were schooled from the time they were five and performed until they were deemed too old to be decorative. The White Gryphon
I didn't get to peek at the G8 lunch room, but I'm told actual canoes, artisan canoe makers on hand to talk about their work, children's artwork from Muskoka and a decorative charger plate made from crosscut wood contributed to a "woodsy" theme. Thestar.com - Home Page
With his inventive sense of flattened, decorative form and composition, he has truly reinvented the still life, but he is also a master of whimsical erotica.
The poem had been embroidered on a pretty decorative pillow.
Diaghilev demonstrated that music could and should have an organic function in ballet, not merely serve a decorative purpose.
Her compositions featured decorative motifs inspired by nature, nodding to the mysterious world of fairytales and their enchanted gardens. Times, Sunday Times
SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
LARGE ripe tomatoes can make a wonderful decorative variation on simple egg mayo. The Sun
The top lawn is dotted with decorative pavilions where they can eat supper and admire the view. Times, Sunday Times
Bright cushions add a decorative touch to a room.
Joe Donnelly's greatest love is twentieth-century design and the decorative arts, on which he is an acknowledged authority.
About 150 mainly student protesters carrying joss sticks and flowers gathered outside the bar in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital and denounced its decorative use of sacred symbols and statues. Buddhist group protests, symbolically seals Buddha Bar in Indonesia
Refined decorative details were concentrated in the entrance and the eaves of the building with rows of geometric shapes.
The dominant decorative feature is the array of ornate brasses with pierced backplates.
A ceiling fan can help ventilation but can also incorporate lighting and be decorative.
He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
Originally developed to route cracks in concrete for repairs with sealants and repair mortars, these bits make decorative V-shaped, chamfered joints possible.
About 300 stone blocks of decorative granite were used in the outer wall surrounding the earthen dome, the central staircase, and the hallway leading into the inner chambers.
The figure called an escarbuncle, No. 19, is simply a shield-boss developed into decorative structural metal-work. The Handbook to English Heraldry
They made decorative items like hemstitched tablecloths and garments as complicated as a fitted shirtwaist, even when someone of their social class could have purchased such things ready - or dressmaker-made. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
There, the real weapons and armor of the Great Feihong hung - not the ceremonious and decorative ones in the Hall, although they too could be wielded and worn.
She is decorative, larger than life, a terrific glamourpuss.
No matter be the liner of vamp, bootlace, upper or shoe, used the material of all sorts of quality of a material, decorative pattern, this also brought new visual influence undoubtedly.
You can take any straight-dress pattern sheath or, for me, princess line, seamed at the hip or not, and put a row of Big Decorative Buttons at the hipline. Two skirts are better than one. - A Dress A Day
He has curated exhibitions on 20 th-century British artists and the decorative arts.
Bags will be embellished with butterflies, edelweiss, feathers, motor bike straps, stabbed with decorative applied brooches and finished with chunky short shoulder chain straps.
On display are marvelous examples of statuary, jewelry, architectural elements, cylinder seals, and various decorative objects.
“Hier soir j'ai dine chez Froment [the artist who paints such beautiful decorative works for Sevres]; ce matin j'ai dejeune chez Froment, ce soir j'y dine, et ainsi de suite.” Philip Gilbert Hamerton
You can find wall-mounted coat racks with rosemaling, or other styles of decorative painting.
It sounds like a charmed life, a purely decorative existence.
Exposed stone is a strong feature of the interior, and no fewer than three walls of the living room are stone, with decorative brick detail around the doors and windows.
All living rooms need a mixture of light: background lighting; local light for working by; and decorative accent lighting.
This spatial richness was supported by the increasing complexity of the decorative scheme, with the frieze above the first floor decorated with medallions beneath an attic storey supported on caryatids.
These were the canons of Socialist Realism enforced in Stalinist Eastern Europe, as late as my visit in 1967 to Weimar, one of the most decorative of cities.
Copper-top bays, corner quoins, paned windows, shutters and arches with decorative keystones above windows and doors are all features common in French-style homes.
A swag is a decorative accent to fabric created by hanging a fabric in a curved pattern between two points.
In case you do not know a finial is: a decorative, terminal part at the tip of a spire, gable, lamp shade support, etc., or projecting upward from the top of a cabinet, breakfront, etc. Thanks, shoe Finial
Still other models featured marquetry, a decorative technique at the height of its popularity in the 1830s.
Traditional handmade crafts were not only useful but also decorative, with colorful and intricate designs.
But I think what you are referring to are Italian style espresso cups in enamel, presumably more decorative than plain graniteware. Plastic Elimination Campaign: Kid's Dishes
The manuscripts can be taken as beautiful pieces of calligraphy, often illustrated and bordered with decorative motifs, so much so that each folio became a fine piece of art.
Her particular study has been of the finely twined decorative borders known as "taniko," a technique that appears to be unique to the Maori.
Both volumes retain their original solid oak boards recessed to support panels of decorative metalwork which have been lost, no doubt at the Reformation.
In some homes, instead of bare timber ceilings, the rafters would be concealed with plaster, which also was sometimes decorative.
In the 17th century, nail heads were considered as decorative and were arranged in ornamental patterns.
Included are lanyard knots for decorative braidwork, bowknots that make loops, Turk's head knots for making decorative handgrips, button knots, sinnets, flat knots, and many, many more.
Escaping post-war London, the grieving widow directed her energies into creating her own decorative version of a Scottish pleasance, planting fruit and vegetables as well as flowers among its topiary.
A generous pile of cushions, or a treasured marble bust can add the required decorative touch.
Surrounding each image is a hand-painted, distressed border with decorative accents.
Works by relatively unknown artists should be collected now for their decorative value only.
They're usually very pretty, usually reasonably priced, and are non-functional decorative items.
The decorative layer is printed on this coating.
Practically invisible or blatantly obvious, these so-called slipups made centuries ago survive today beneath vitrified coats of clear overglaze and provide snapshots of the innovative and ingenious decorative techniques employed.
The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints. Jugendstil
Nautilus shells are often used decoratively, and the internal shell of a cuttlefish, or cuttle bone, is sold in the pet trade as a calcium source for birds.
This was a suite of six prose poems, mostly composed in an ironic and decorative biblical style replete with anaphora and the artificiality of thee's, thy's and thou's.
Running through each polygon a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie or hexagon is a decorative line. Archive 2007-02-01
Rosemary, thyme and dill are also good decorative herbs to plant with cabbages.
These items were joined by donations of needlework, silhouettes, mirrors, and other decorative arts by her daughters.
The same is true of Lewis's imagery, It is decorative, pleasing and attractive.
He worked in slipware, maiolica and tin-glaze and employed a wide range of decorative techniques. Times, Sunday Times
Boucher's pictures are festooned with swags of cupidons instead of the fruit and flowers of his decorative predecessors such as Jan Brueghel.
Taking advantage of the relative ease of inlaying with niello, casemakers used it to create a variety of decorative motifs such as plants, figures, and geometric patterns.
Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
A Case of Curiosities is devoted to the art of taxidermy, decorative, restorative and anthropomorphic.
Getting the scale of decorative accessories right is also crucial. Times, Sunday Times
Bright cushions add a decorative touch to a room.
Instead, couples ask for things that are decorative or luxurious, that would add lustre to the things they already own. Times, Sunday Times
Men usually work with metals such as copper, brass, and aluminum to craft decorative plates, wall hangings, and utensils.
Few can resist buying the feather-light decorative pieces, which come in alluring colours.
Watch how the pros produce stunning decorative overlays from start to finish, including surface preparation, pre-overlay repair, placing, and finishing.
Arrange the tomatoes and melon wedges decoratively on the couscous and accompany with a lemon wedge.
Pelts of Cervidae are not of great importance in furriery, and they are only used for decorative purposes.
Most curcumas do well in a shady or diffused light location on the landscape or as a patio plant in a decorative container.
The turret is not a folly in the true sense, because it is attached to the house, but it is purely decorative. Times, Sunday Times
The secret of decorative patterns is that the dynamic of part-whole relations within them seems to energize them.
And finally, go wild with decorative lighting to brighten up your tiny space. Times, Sunday Times
Bar tops in the fireplace-warmed "Bulldog Lounge" are made from local taconite rock, flecked with red iron ore; walls are inlaid with Minnesota stone and the decorative panels are made of wood salvaged from old grain elevators. Why College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports
The boss at the center of the vault, arranged as a decorative six-pointed star with cusped tracery, here provides the sculptural element.
A note in one of Leonardo's manuscripts speaks of twenty-four Roman subjects, probably small decorative groups in _camaieu_, painted on the vaulting of these rooms, and gives the exact cost of the blue, gold, and enamel employed, but all trace of these decorations has vanished. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
The weekly outing features DJs, performance artists, art, fashion and live music taking place across three rooms, each with its own decorative style and dedicated musical theme, taking in techno, house, hip-hop and R&B. Clubs picks of the week
The twin bedroom is particularly charming and is now a children's room with nursery rhyme wallpaper and decorative features.
Phrases are often repeated in the ballads, just as in the talk of the common man, for the sake of emphasis, but there is neither complexity of plot or characterization nor attempt at decorative literary adornment -- the story and the emotion which it calls forth are all in all. A History of English Literature
The original fireplace in the hall proved to have an elegant curved back and a decorative fireback of herringbone brick and was surmounted by a massive pine lintel.
Metalware and Wooden Ware, Candle Holder , Picture Frames , Racks , Wall Shelf, Metal Furniture, Home Decorative Items.
The miniature calamondin ‘orange’ grown as a decorative house plant is sometimes considered to be a mandarin × kumquat hybrid, and sometimes assigned to a species of its own.
But Gluck says his favorite feature is the decorative detail along the top rim of the building.
It is made mostly from polyester and features a decorative bow at the front. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier, he dealt with vernacular quotations, including decorative evocations of the cults of American gangsterism and Elvis Presley, and kitsch phenomena such as biker heraldry.
Production of one class of product, woody decorative florals, is being tested in several agroforestry configurations.
An interior from a Maryland farmhouse shows that with nationhood comes a fully developed appreciation of fine furniture and decorative pieces.
A studio offering artistic skills training produces tableware and decorative items sold on the commercial market.
He used the grandeur of a decorative, classicizing composition but did not archaize the scene by putting the women in identifiably regional clothing.
The style is ornate and highly decorative.
After the raw materials have been ground, sifted, dampened, kneaded and formed into clay figures, another step in the process is added: decorative paint from cooked anil. The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction
These railings once boasted elaborate lamp brackets with decorative scrolls and finials.
In ceramic studies, the application of ethnographically observed patterns of the deployment of decorative styles provides socio-functional explanations of pottery usage.
Cherry is chiefly used as a decorative interior finishing lumber, for buildings, cars and boats, also for furniture and in turnery, for musical instruments, walking sticks, last blocks, and woodenware. Seasoning of Wood
Antique andirons and fireplace tools survive in some quantity, but hard use has often taken its toll and they may be more decorative than useful today.
These remarkably beautiful beaded pieces are presented alongside an astonishing array of objects created expressly for the Victorian tourist market, including pincushions, photo frames, decorative boxes and wall pieces.
Fascinating it was too: almost no plants, entirely taken over by garden impedimenta and decorative items for the home.
There is too much of everything, as the artist further patterns the paintings with decorative details.
And finally, go wild with decorative lighting to brighten up your tiny space. Times, Sunday Times
Kubrick and Shahni's visual surfaces are highly decorative; they integrate the human with the non-organic surfaces of everyday objects and spaces and in Shahani's case, with nature as well.
He worked in slipware, maiolica and tin-glaze and employed a wide range of decorative techniques. Times, Sunday Times
She is decorative, larger than life, a terrific glamourpuss.
Some houses will also have Arts and Crafts-style architraves, covings, skirtings and mantelpieces, while others will feature decorative ceiling beams and attic storage areas.
It's used to create decorative openwork stitching on tightly woven fabrics such as linen and fine batiste.
The same is true for fine cloisonné, lacquerware and decorative metalwork.
Open Cretan stitch or faggoting is used in making open decorative seams and to attach insertions.
Those of the first class, well known as the insignia of certain eminent personages and powerful houses, were borne by all the followers, retainers, dependants, and partisans of those personages and houses: and they were so borne by them, and they were used by their owners for every variety of decorative purpose, because they were _known and understood_; and, consequently, because the presence of these Badges would cause all persons and objects bearing them to be readily and certainly distinguished. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Decoratively draped over the frame is a swag of gray fabric painted with an orange dot on a light blue square accented with red.
The ceiling panels, curved soffits, and decorative guardrails all sport themes from Native American culture.
Using strands, strips and balls of clay, create a decorative border around the crackled clay.
A fascinating mix of braids, tassels, chenilles and decorative trimmings in delicate silken yarn complements the entire package.
The utility model has a good decorative effect except that the utility model can endow certain temperature to the seat ring to resolve uncomfortableness of cool.
The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
She used her skill to please, with pretty, decorative painting, some of which adorns the ceilings of Burlington House.
It will feature decorative landscapes and cuisine from a variety of Southeast Asian countries.
Decorative details include laminate flooring and strategically placed glass bricks to allow the flow of light through the home.
It produces an exceptionally large number of cobs in a range of colours which are not only totally edible but also, as dried flowers, highly decorative.
The double doors have decorative beading on face.
Buttons ceased to be purely decorative and began to feature regimental designs.
It is in good decorative order, and features include timber floors, new teak sash windows, a restored chapel, and a new roof.
Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
Vuillard's interiors with their strong decorative elements echo those of Matisse.
Glass decorated with narrative scenes and with devices appropriated from the classical past were some of the Western decorative motifs used to embellish glass objects.
The finely laciniated foliage of = A. plumosus = is greatly prized for bouquets, and the plant invariably commands attention as a decorative subject on the table or in the conservatory. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
This attractive material is mostly consumed by the lapidary market for jewelry and decorative specimens for dressing windows and display cases.
Decorative serving platters also make great presents for the culinarily gifted.
The Nicaraguan tradition of producing utilitarian and decorative ceramics and earthenware continues.
Some of the tower's best surviving medieval architecture can be found inside, such as decorative arcading along the walls.
Inside—or, rather, outside—the summerhouse was the kind of place Rebecca would find enchanting, with its burbling fountain, decorative brickwork, and stone chairs protected from the elements by shelflike orange tile roofs. The Viognier Vendetta
I was drawn to one of the dustless white walls, which had a decorative plaster border, a representation of acorns and leaves. 'The Little Stranger'
I was vested in riassa, epitrachelion, and phelonian (in other words: long black robe, decorative stole and sort of a liturgical cape); I'm saying the words: "By the sprinkling of this Holy Water, may every evil action and demon be put to flight …" and the choir and parishioners are chanting the Theophany hymn. ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.
Many of the decorative species and hybrids are reasonably hardy plants.
Stems and leaves divided into multiple folioles in bas-relief bend so as wholly to fill the decorative field.
The most unusual touches, though, are decorative finials on the roofs of private residences.
After completing a $100 million, three-phase renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open its New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts on Jan. 16. A Revolution in American Art
The decorative, formal and iconographical nature of the artworks veil the confused personal tensions always present in relationships.
There is also a fabulous collection of furniture and decorative arts. Times, Sunday Times
As they reached the city gates, they saw fist-sized rubies and great sapphires and emeralds and flashes of amethyst hanging like decorative baubles from every possible place.
A ceiling fan can help ventilation but can also incorporate lighting and be decorative.
The entire surface of the gateways is covered with bas-reliefs representing scenes from the life of Gautama Buddha, stories from the Jatakas, along with decorative elements.
The earliest method was to derive a contratenor altus from the written discantus by singing the same notes simultaneously at the 4th below, which produced essentially a chain of what would now be called 6-3 chords, varied and punctuated by single 8-5 chords, though with some decorative passing notes and suspensions, particularly at cadences, and on occasion more licentious dissonances. Archive 2008-02-01
Some time ago I wanted to give an aluminium casting a similar decorative finish so I took it to the plating shop to have it 'anodised'. CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
Directly across from the elevator was an intricate giltwood frame, Baroque and winding and elaborate, like a decorative tangle of thorns, or a gust of waves reaching out from the sea. The Art Thief
Her compositions featured decorative motifs inspired by nature, nodding to the mysterious world of fairytales and their enchanted gardens. Times, Sunday Times
There are decorative rods, swags and for the most genteel draperies, and hardware with a touch of whimsy.
Pella's extensive decorative glass collection includes a variety of matching transoms and sidelights.
Livers Bronze Co.'s commercial handrailing designs are installed primarily in museums, libraries, offices and theaters as showcase, yet functional and hardwearing, decorative glass and metal handrails. Kansas City Star: News
Furnitures such as Rattan, Bamboo, Wicker, Decorative Candles and Candle Holders Furniture, Furniture Fittings and Fixtures.
This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.
Canadian art, contemporary art, Amerindian art, and decorative arts.
The burning rubbish set fire to the wooden structure and its decorative panelling and burned a hole in the wall as well as causing damage to the roof.
A wide range of wooden statues, ready-made garments, decorative greeting cards, handicrafts items and eateries were on display.
It is a streamlined piece of design that would fit into the sort of decorative scheme I imagine you're after. Times, Sunday Times
A curve of lawn with a driveway, two-car garage, liriope and begonia planted on the sidewalks in summer, decorative purple cabbages and winter pansies from greenhouses in fall. For the Sake of the Boy
When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. Familiar Spanish Travels

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