decore
To remove the core from.
Verb obsolete
- 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
Verb Entry 2
- 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.