decoratable

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A form of decorable — That can be decorated.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivedecoratable (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of decorable.

    Fourth of July handbills and posters decorate almost everything decoratable.

    1885 July 2, “City News”, in The Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth, Kan.
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    Those at Wyoming were grandly liberal, every dwelling, and every possible decoratable point having received its quantum of bunting and evergreen.

    1878 July 3, “Wyoming Centennial. Music, Addresses and Poems. […] President Hayes and Suite. […]”, in Record of the Times, volume V, number 524, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

    Everything decoratable among the public conveyances bore the national colors, firecrackers popped on every hand, the small boy was all aglee with his national holiday and the thickening blood of the older men both among the delegates and town people coursed rapidly through veins that for years had not felt so keenly the sense of exhilaration and holiday enthusiasm.

    1888 July 5, “Arriving in Town’: The Delegates Assigned to their Respective Quarters”, in The Evening Standard, number 6,686, Leavenworth, Kan.

    Remember to decorate everything decoratable or undecoratable for the reunion.

    1889 August 29, Evening Dispatch, volume 9, number 91, Arkansas City, Kan.

    The prettily decoratable tables of refreshments were embowered in tall leafy boughs, giving the appearance of a forest and amid this greenry lights were sending out a crimson glow.

    1910 November, “Club Column. The Saturday Club.”, in The Home Record, volume XXXIX, number 11, Leavenworth, Kan.

    Sergeant-at-Arms Pedrick says, however, that nothing can be done between now and Memorial Day to make the statues decoratable.

    1915 May 26, “Grand Army Men Make Protest. Debris Around Statues on State House Grounds Prevents Memorial Day Decorations.”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume LXXXVII, number 146, Boston, Mass., page 2

Origin

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