decoration vs tapestry

decoration

noun
  • Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation. 

  • 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. 

  • The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host 

  • The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 

tapestry

noun
  • Anything with variegated or complex details. 

  • A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. 

verb
  • To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry. 

How often have the words decoration and tapestry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )