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bedeck

[bih-dek] / bɪˈdɛk /


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No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

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

That is, pride bedecks herself, and the devil despoils.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

An old lady would now 59 create a sensation indeed if she appeared in a turban like that which bedecks the sitting figure.

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith

At a Labour event bedecked with red balloons in Upper Hutt, near Wellington, party workers were quietly confident they had secured the largest number of seats.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

And despite her middle-class upbringing, some see Lagarde as an elitist, often bedecked in Chanel and carrying bags from Hermès or Louis Vuitton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

They peer into taxidermists’ drawers full of feathers and talons and glass eyeballs; they flip through two-hundred-year-old herbarium sheets bedecked with orchids and daisies and herbs.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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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