decorated, ppl. a.
(ˈdɛkəreɪtɪd)
[f. decorate v. + -ed.]
Adorned, embellished; furnished with anything ornamental; invested with a decoration.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Decorated, beautified, adorned. 1816 J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) p. xlvii, Disturbances..caused by decorated officers attempting to make the passers-by cry Vive l'Empereur. 1874 Boutell Arms & Arm. v. 76 The least decorated pieces of ancient Greek armour. |
b. Archit. Applied to the second or Middle style of English Pointed architecture (which prevailed throughout the greater part of the 14th c.), wherein decoration was increasingly employed and became part of the construction.
‘The most prominent characteristic of this style is to be found in the windows, the tracery of which is always either of geometrical figures, circles, quatrefoils, etc., as in the earlier instances [hence called geometrical decorated], or flowing in wavy lines, as in the later examples’ (Parker Gloss. Archit.).
| 1812 Rickman Styles Goth. Archit. (1817) 44 Decorated English, reaching to the end of the reign of Edward III in 1377. Ibid. 71 Of the Third, or Decorated English Style. 1847 Hand-Bk. Eng. Ecclesiology 3 Second, or Middle Pointed (which has been known by the name of Decorated). 1848 Poole Eccl. Archit. 245 Geometrical or very early Decorated. 1849 Freeman Archit. ii. ii. iii. 347 The exquisite Decorated church of Wymmington in Bedfordshire. 1874 Parker Goth. Archit. i. v. 161 The change from the Early English to the Decorated style was..very gradual. |