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Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.

One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.] To decore and beautify the house of God. E. Hall.

robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

To decorate; to make showy and fine. [Obs.] And with sad cypress seemly it embraves. Spenser.

To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted.

To decorate with a diaper pattern.

To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy. He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing. M. Arnold.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.

f curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.