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Definition of Bedecking
1. bedeck [v] - See also: bedeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedecking
Literary usage of Bedecking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... bedecking the earth with her loveliest flowers : And murmuring, and singing,
each streamlet and rill Comes dancing adown yon time-beaten hill. ..."
2. The Puritans by Arlo Bates (1898)
"XXVIII bedecking ORNAMENTS OF PRAISE Love's Labor's Lost, ii. 1 WHEN Maurice
Wynne's bitter word stung her, Berenice Morison stood for a second too ..."
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"... Mrs. Durbeyfield hung a black cloak outside the casement, and so made a large
reflector of the panes, as it is the wont of bedecking cottagers to do. ..."
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