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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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