No curtains, frills, or decorations, or worldly objects like clothes, jewels, and mirrors, were allowed.
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Alternative possibilities for their usage include serving as decorations on water jars or as ritual masks.
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Since there are only finitely many such decorations, step (3) is clearly decidable.
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The festivities surrounding this event included a procession with an elephant, and after the procession the elephant was tethered, its decorations were removed and it was fed and watered.
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Workers and dealers in house, furniture and decorations 12.
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Nuns were not to choose objects for their cells, develop any attachment to them, or enrich them with distinctive individual marks such as names or decorations.
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Far from obeying what can be deduced of authentic eighteenth-century practice, we should employ decorations in the da capos that are contemporary to us and stylistically disturbing to the purist.
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We were unable to evaluate the association between frostings or cake decorations and developing illness because all of the wedding cakes were frosted and decorated with the same food products.
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The whole subject of war decorations will no doubt receive consideration at a later stage.
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The total numbers of honours, decorations, and brevet or other promotions conferred on these officers sire, respectively, 169 and 55.
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The names of those taking part in air attacks against the enemy are only published when they receive decorations for their services.
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I understand that in the north it is the general practice for council tenants to be responsible for internal decorations.
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Decorations have also been conferred on thirteen majors, twelve captians, and nine lieutenants.
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Decorations purchased in previous years will be reused.
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Decorations can also be presented at local gatherings by prominent citizens, if desired.
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Collocationswithdecoration
decoration
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architectural decoration
We begin with indices of regional groups of sites linked together by common iconographic themes in architectural decoration.
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elaborate decoration
Spandrels are often the site ofelaboratedecoration.
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floral decoration
Flower beds in streets are to be eliminated, and there is to be nofloraldecorationof public buildings.
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