decore

To remove the core from.

Verb obsolete

  1. To decorate; to beautify.
    • To decore and illustre thesame assembly. - a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […],...

Origin

Compare French décorer. See decorate.

Forms

decores decoring decored

Verb Entry 2

  1. To remove the core from.
    • to decore a cabbage or an apple

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Middle English core English core English decore From de- + core.

Forms

decores decoring decored

Derived

decorer