Il cavalier Decenzio Cappadona l'aveva fatta decorare e addobbare sontuosamente a sue spese.(Pirandello - Novelle per un anno)<>
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festone
= ornamento composto di foglie , fiori - o anche di strisce di stoffa - o carta colorata , che si appende ad arco per addobbare finestre , sale , strade ecc . fregio architettonico a forma di festone , che decora pareti , facciate , sarcofagi ecc . <>
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The meal was hastilydespatched; each of the gentlemen's hats was decorated with an enormousblue favour, made up by the fair hands of Mrs.<>
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It was pleasingto see his open and ingenuous countenance, well mustachioed and corked,looking out from an open shirt collar; and to contemplate the sugar-loafhat, decorated with ribbons of all colours, which he was compelled tocarry on his knee, inasmuch as no known conveyance with a top to it,would admit of any man's carrying it between his head and the roof.<>
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In the lowerwindows, which were decorated with curtains of a saffron hue, dangledtwo or three printed cards, bearing reference to Devonshire cider andDantzic spruce, while a large blackboard, announcing in white letters toan enlightened public, that there were 500,000 barrels of double stoutin the cellars of the establishment, left the mind in a state of notunpleasing doubt and uncertainty as to the precise direction in thebowels of the earth, in which this mighty cavern might be supposedto extend.<>
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I shan't venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I neverheard the story,' observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Now, although the warder's room was a very uncomfortable one (being,in every point of decoration and convenience, several hundred degreesinferior to the common infirmary of a county jail), it had at presentthe merit of being wholly deserted save by Mr. Pickwick himself.<>
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The crimson flag was carefully tied in an erect positionto the rail of the dickey; and Mr. Samuel Weller, decorated with BobSawyer's hat, was seated in the centre thereof, discussing a twinsandwich, with an animated countenance, the expression of whichbetokened his entire and perfect approval of the whole arrangement.<>
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Over the mantelpiece werethe sunken doors of an iron safe, while a couple of hanging shelvesfor books, an almanac, and several files of dusty papers, decorated thewalls.<>
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Don't you remember the look of that room? How very carefullyit was arranged and decorated? There were two crossed battle-axes hungon one side of the fire-place, two crossed battle-axes on the other.<>
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On theother side stood the plainer tent of Phroso the Phrenologist; moreausterely decorated with diagrams of the heads of Socrates andShakespeare, which were apparently of a lumpy sort.<>
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