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bedeck

[bih-dek] / bɪˈdɛk /


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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

With the magic of a clear glue varnish such as Modge Podge, you can bedeck everything from glassware, votives, pottery, frames, coasters and serving trays to handmade stationery or cards with your dried blossoms.

From Seattle Times Sep. 15, 2023

So attention seemed merited by a 64-degree day when spring is in the air, fully formed blossoms bedeck the trees, and a weekend awaits us.

From Washington Post Mar. 25, 2022

Tents have been erected around Obama’s property and chairs and couches bedeck his spacious lawn for the last of the months-long preparations, according to the Mail.

From Fox News Aug. 7, 2021

Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Hilberath said her tiny home is not big enough for her Christmas tree which instead bedecks the terrace but she was still grateful for the people who had helped put a roof over her head.

From Reuters Dec. 23, 2021

Save for a blip of a scene from “Thriller,” no official footage of music videos that might ignite a mote of nostalgia bedecks its architecture.

From Salon Mar. 3, 2019

Her distinctive crest, two facing T’s that resemble a medieval cross, bedecks ballet flats from Manhasset to Myanmar; her signature caftans billow above thousands of tummies; the vice president’s wife carries one of her handbags.

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2011

Months pass, and Sigrid’s sorrow disappears; The wild death-raven’s might no more she fears; A gentle red bedecks her cheek again, And briny drops her eye no longer stain.

From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow

Sol bedecks the mead with light?' cried the young lord.

From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

That day, the skater -- whose Telegram channel has almost 150,000 subscribers -- posted a photo of herself in a room bedecked with pink-and-white bouquets.

From Barron's Jan. 30, 2026

It’s just a quiet drive beneath a near mile of stately cedars bedecked with strings of multicolor lights.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

An exception to this was at the start of July when lampposts between the University of Birmingham and the Edgbaston cricket ground were bedecked with Palestinian flags - they were quickly taken down.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2025

Renaissance and Medieval pieces, and the “quality camp” or “fantasy furniture” he favored — weird and whimsical pieces embellished with mythical creatures; chairs sprouting antlers, torcheres bedecked with gargoyles, commodes atop griffin feet.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2024

By the end of the tournament, the suavely bedecked Bobby had played all eleven games without a single loss.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

It was a show of tradition as the procession approached the castle, with the bright flag bedecking the late queen’s coffin standing out amid the more somber tones.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2022

At “puffy white,” the blossoms seemed pale globes bedecking trees and branches.

From Washington Post Mar. 19, 2022

“The Abolitionists hoped that bedecking slaves in Union blue and enlisting us in a fight for our own freedom would make men of us,” Etheridge says.

From New York Times Feb. 14, 2022

Maxx and other retailers high and low, the masses are swooning over Beckham bedecking our favorite box store.

From Salon Apr. 1, 2017

When permission is given to send her to Court, what joy there is, what bedecking, what congratulation!

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin




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