bedecked
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The 30-year-old curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario had been scrutinizing a portrait of a young Black woman bedecked in jewels and wearing a shimmering blue gown with pearls around her neck and wrists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
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
An hour later in a slightly sweaty hotel ballroom bedecked with “Unionize California” signs, Friedman was being treated like the belle of the ball at the California Labor Federation’s annual awards dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
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
