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decorative art
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noun
art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
Usually decorative arts. any of the arts, as ceramics or jewelry making, whose works are created to be useful.
works of decorative art collectively.
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Origin of decorative art
First recorded in 1850–55
Words nearby decorative art
decorated, decorated shed, Decorated style, decoration, decorative, decorative art, decorator, decorous, decorticate, decortication, decorum
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