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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

My soul is a tomb where—bad monk that I be— I dwell and search its depths from all eternity, And nought bedecks the walls of the odious spot.

From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

You shall know her, too, by the gold that bedecks her skirt, by the light that glimmers in her hair.'

From Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children by Katharine Cameron

There was even a guard of honour with team-mates bedecked in kilts.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The usually sleepy Laotian capital Vientiane has an uncharacteristic buzz, bedecked with flags and T-shirt vendors ahead of commemorations of 50 years of communist rule Tuesday, but for many young people history carries little weight.

From Barron's Dec. 1, 2025

Style: Dylan performed in mime makeup and a broad-brimmed hat bedecked in flowers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2024

Smudgy cartoonlike pastels coexisted with raw plaster works and jewel boxes bedecked elaborately with wool, glass, straight pins, knives and sometimes taxidermized birds — animistic objects that resembled little else being made in the 1960s.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2024

They were warhorses like Alsvindr, bedecked in plating and royal standards.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

“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

The magnate hated it, and in 1904, he sold it to Charles Lang Freer, who reassembled it in the States, bedecking it with ceramics from Iran, Japan, China, Syria and Korea.

From Washington Post Dec. 10, 2018

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

From Salon Apr. 1, 2017

The one, drawn by her beauty, kneels to her, touching her resplendent garments; the other grasps her with the mailed hand, bedecking her with a mantle of his own.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore




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