decoration

Definitions

• The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
• Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
• (biochemistry) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host