noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Christmas decorations (= things to decorate a house, shop, or town at Christmas )
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When do you put your Christmas decorations up?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
interior
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Certainly we should not see the Minoan frescoes as simple interior decoration .
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Dress and interior decoration began to follow Western models.
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Moving into the chapel itself, look first at the interior decoration .
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As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion, the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration .
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Whoever was responsible for the interior decoration of Hummingbird House had subtly co-ordinated paler, more restful shades of sun-gold and sea-blue.
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Wilson Decorators survey a house and agree to carry out interior decorations for £800.
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Like many bachelors, David hated frittering time away on interior decoration .
sculptural
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There is more variety of design between buildings than in Doric, and at first no regularly accepted positions for sculptural decoration .
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It is also a fourteenth century church and shows Romanesque tendencies in its sculptural decoration .
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Important buildings were constructed in stone and have lofty towers and spires and great richness of sculptural and carved decoration .
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The sculptural decoration on the façade is from the workshop of F. M. Brokof.
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The sculptural decoration here is very rich in figures and picture carving.
■ NOUN
christmas
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His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box.
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The Christmas decorations which lasted into spring.
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Laying the Christmas decoration on the eiderdown with care, he thought about Vic.
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She now makes jewellery boxes, pencil holders, and Christmas decorations .
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They'd come into the shops covered in Christmas decorations .
wall
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Your removal men will dismantle bedsteads and take down pictures and wall decorations .
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It includes drawings for wall decorations , tapestries, silverware, stage designs and even a triumphal car.
■ VERB
use
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Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
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As decoration is so popular you could, of course, use lavish appliqué decorations for a really glittering late day look as well.
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You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration .
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Always flatten angelica with the blade of a knife before using it for decoration .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The building was very plain with hardly any decoration at all.
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The only decoration in the room was a picture above the fireplace.
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These plants are grown mainly for decoration .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All that glitters may not be gold, but these decorations would add elegance and sparkle to any Christmas tree.
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All the decorations were white and festoons of snowy lace-gushed from every appropriate appointment.
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Both are easy to colour and mould into decorations.
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It is also a popular field decoration on Belouch prayer rugs.
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Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations.
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The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches.
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To follow the process from clay lump to glazed decoration demands discipline.
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We whipped up Christmassy feelings and pulled decorations and paper hats out of a hamper given by soldiers in the Outer Hebrides.