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Definition of Bedeck
1. Verb. Decorate. "They bedeck the halls with holly"; "Deck the halls with holly"
Generic synonyms: Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Grace, Ornament
Specialized synonyms: Plume
Definition of Bedeck
1. v. t. To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Definition of Bedeck
1. Verb. (transitive) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedeck
1. to clothe with finery [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedeck
Literary usage of Bedeck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"... but must observe, that most of our revolutionary laws bedeck themselves in
vague precautions, cloudy inquie- • tudes, and black distrust of chimerical ..."
2. Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs by Joseph Cradock, John Bowyer Nichols (1828)
"bedeck the mournful bower; The tender woodbine droops its bead, The whiteness of
the lilly 'a fled, Since fled their favourite flower. CAUTION. ..."
3. Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns by Hartley Coleridge (1833)
"... bedeck'd the smiling meads with green, Blush'd in the flower, and ting'd the
fruit, More lovely still as more minute: O'er every part the veil of beauty ..."
4. Short Patent Sermons by Elbridge Gerry Paige (1845)
"... unseen to its native heaven; but the body upon which you bestow so much
pains—pamper with so much pride—and bedeck with so much ornament, ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"bedeck, va Adorn, decorate, embellish, beautify, ornament, deck, emblazon, gild,
array, garnish, ... Bedizen, va Adorn (gaudily), deck, bedeck. Bedlam, n. ..."
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