decoratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From decorate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Those at Wyoming were grandly liberal, every dwelling, and every possible decoratable point having received its quantum of bunting and evergreen.
ref: 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.:
text: Fourth of July handbills and posters decorate almost everything decoratable.
ref: 1885 July 2, “City News”, in The Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth, Kan.:
text: 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.
ref: 1888 July 5, “Arriving in Town’: The Delegates Assigned to their Respective Quarters”, in The Evening Standard, number 6,686, Leavenworth, Kan.:
text: Remember to decorate everything decoratable or undecoratable for the reunion.
ref: 1889 August 29, Evening Dispatch, volume 9, number 91, Arkansas City, Kan.:
text: 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.
ref: 1910 November, “Club Column. The Saturday Club.”, in The Home Record, volume XXXIX, number 11, Leavenworth, Kan.:
text: Sergeant-at-Arms Pedrick says, however, that nothing can be done between now and Memorial Day to make the statues decoratable.
ref: 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:
text: The glove itself, that is, the outside, keeps the old sober colors, whites, grays, chestnut and half-tones, but this expanse of decoratable space all around the wrist and lower hand is too valuable to waste.
ref: 1922 October 30, “Women Wear the Gay Gauntlet”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 43, number 43, Kansas City, Mo., page 8:
text: This addition to the decoratable surface of feminine epidermis is nothing if not evidence of a millennium in the cycle of civilization that is taking us back to our beginnnings.
ref: 1939 July 19, “Evidence of a Millennieum^([sic])”, in Appeal-Democrat, volume 24, number 15, Marysville, Calif.; Yuba City, Calif., page eight:
text: FLATS, Rooms to LET; suit gentlefolk, business people; adults; detached residence; decoratable—Rosecliffe, Saltash.
ref: 1941 April 5, The Western Morning News, number 25,350, page 4:
text: Has it occurred to you that one of the largest decoratable areas in your home is wall space?
ref: 1958 May 25, Betty Cook Sedwick, “Shop talk”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, seventy-eighth year, number 114, Fort Worth, Tex., section four, page ten:
text: Thirty people made their Communion in a Church beautifully decorated with the glowing colours of dahlias and other summer flowers: pulpit, screen, lectern, font, windows, shelves and all other decoratable fixtures being aglow with dazzling hues on Sunday last.
ref: 1958 August 8, “Draycott Parish birthday: Church bright with flowers”, in The Wells Journal, volume CVIII, number 32, page 1:
text: Almost anything decoratable can be used as a base and the list of things to cut out is endless.
ref: 1958 December 12, “You’ve Probably Practiced Decoupage Unknowingly”, in Journal-Every Evening, volume 26, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page 28:
text: The couple will live in London since Mr. Hicks’s job keeps him close to the decoratable homes of Mayfair and Belgravia.
ref: 1959 November 3, Evening Standard, page 4:
text: The Noonans then went in and decorated every “decoratable” corner of their home.
ref: 1961 December 20, Gingie Reed, “Christmas Calls On A New Street”, in Journal Herald, 154th year, number 303, Dayton, Ohio, page 23:
text: Both are simple enough for the smallest girl to enjoy, well proportioned enough to be “decoratable” and thus hold the interest of an older girl.
ref: 1963 October 27, “Your ‘Little Doll’ Will Love One Of These Doll Houses”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 123rd year, number 201, page 6-I:
text: The rooms in electrically-heated houses are ‘totally decoratable.’
ref: 1965 June 13, “Electric Living Guide: Small Houses Getting Bigger? Electric Heating Gives Added Space”, in The Sunday News, volume 46, number 24, Ridgewood, N.J., page 81:
text: Their invention relates to “an improved decorative or decoratable and/or structural panel” and a method of producing it.
ref: 1965 December 8, “Several Patents Obtained Recently by Mead Men”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 166, number 288, Chillicothe, Ohio, page 44:
text: Saloon — The Spot, where George Randall has decorated everything decoratable, including the ceiling.
ref: 1965 December 11, The Evansville Press, 60th year, number 140, Evansville, Ind., page 7:
text: Now that kids are back to school, merchandisers have moved on to the next decoratable holiday, and that’s Halloween.
ref: 2013 August 24, Annie Calovich, “This year’s wet summer creates lush extravagance: Giant leaves, wildflowers, figs erupt after rains”, in The Wichita Eagle, page 1C:
text: The 3-D depictions of the story of Jesus’ birth, made to fit in a decoratable shoebox, can be brought to the church the week before the event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
ref: 2015 November 29, “Westminster welcomes shoebox nativities”, in The Citizen, Auburn, N.Y., page C7:
glosses: Alternative form of decorable.
Derived terms: decoratability
undecoratable