Synonyms for decor

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dey-kawr, di-, dey-kawr

Phonetic Transcription : deɪˈkɔr, dɪ-, ˈdeɪ kɔr

Définition of decor

Origin : 1897, from French décor (18c.), back-formation from décorer "to decorate" (14c.), from Latin decorare (see decorate). It thus duplicates Latin decor "beauty, elegance, charm, grace, ornament." Originally a theater term in English; general use is since 1926.

noun colors, furnishings of a place

Example sentences :

There's not a man in the column you are looking at who is not decor.'
Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever

Hugo has much to say of the pulchritudo and the decor of the creature-world.
Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor

An architect's skill is most often measured in the poem by his adherence to decor.
Extract from : « The Art of Architecture » by Anonymous

She had taken expensive rooms in a good location, and furnished them with the assistance of a decor store.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This was the decor of convention that Madame Sans Gene rendered classic.
Extract from : « Royal Palaces and Parks of France » by Milburg Francisco Mansfield

Orne looked around at the Bullone guest room: low key furnishings with an old-fashioned selectacol for change of decor.
Extract from : « Operation Haystack » by Frank Patrick Herbert

Clearly Vitruvius's rule of decor had not restrained even the publicists of Palladianism.
Extract from : « The Art of Architecture » by Anonymous

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