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Decoration: Something serving to beautify; embellishment; ornament. Usually place on a Christmas Tree or around the house.

Feathering: Blending a small area into the surrounding paint or stain.

Filigree Work: (also called vinework or vinery) A common type of decoration in medieval manuscripts. Scott defines it in the following manner: Delicate, conventional designs, usually in gold, on a flat col . . . View Full Definition

Diamante: (Italian via French, 'sparkling decoration,' cognate with diamond, pronounced dee oh MON tay) A genre of simple concrete poetry consisting of a single unrhymed and untitled stanza with a vis . . . View Full Definition

Border: Edge of a photographic print - either left white, or printed black.

Embellishment: Melodic decoration, either improvised or indicated through ornamentation signs in the music.

Flourisher: In medieval times, this was a professional artist who works in conjunction with illuminators and rubricators to design pen-work decoration on initials and /or flourishwork on the borders of . . . View Full Definition

Rhyme: Normally end-rhyme, that is, lines of verse characterized by the consonance of terminal words or syllables. Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the word's last stressed sy . . . View Full Definition

Yuëh-Fu: A form of Chinese poetry in mixed meter and short lines, with a five-word line being most common. The number of stanzas was likewise variable. The conventions of the genre include a monologu . . . View Full Definition

Winchester Manuscript: A handwritten book or manuscript by two scribes containing the text of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Librarian Walter Oakeshott discovered the text in 1934. It had been locked in a safe in the . . . View Full Definition