Samplers, used to record stitches and designs, became mainly decorative after the appearance of pattern books.
By extension, the word is applied to any oval shape or even to a decorative shield, whether scroll-like in appearance or not.
Choose a wired decorative ribbon for the most elegant appearance.
One gesture Belzberg leans on heavily — curving walls framing expanses of clear or opaque glass — begins after several appearances to feel gratuitously decorative.
Decorative coatings require not only an attractive appearance for market applications, but also an ability to protect the surface underneath.
These churches vary in appearance from the elaborate and decorative St. James the Less (1858 61), London, to the barren austerity of St . Georges (1861), Oakengates, Shropshire.
And they mobbed the general during his brief appearance, knocking over a huge decorative pot of flowers and trampling them underfoot.
The arrival of modern humans coincided with the appearance of elaborate cave paintings, decorative stones and beads, and imported shells, suggesting H. sapiens had a more complex society than the Neanderthals.
The building's decorative exterior contributes its building's robotic appearance, though it often serves practical functions as well.
