Crossword clues for adorning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adorn \A*dorn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adorned; p. pr. & vb. n. Adorning.] [OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare; ad + ornare to furnish, embellish. See Adore, Ornate.] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
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At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place.
--Goldsmith.Syn: To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor.
Usage: To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.
Wiktionary
n. An adornment. vb. (present participle of adorn English)
Usage examples of "adorning".
Its facial features were birdlike, with a long beak and pale blue feathers adorning its head.
There was savagery in her expression that looked like some sort of perversion when adorning that beautiful face.
From here he could see the statues adorning the landscaped gardens and the score of smaller buildings housing slaves and servants.
His eyes widened in awe as he drank in the sight of a regal warrior woman, a doric helm pushed back on her head, a golden breastplate adorning her torso.
Knowing that Tariq found the very sight of it adorning her slim anide incredibly sexy, she had become rather attached to the an klet once he had shown her how to undo it.
She paused to greet him for a moment and remarked that this was one of the finest falls she could remember, so warm that by this time of year the fine potted orange trees adorning the rooftop terrace above the kitchens had usually been taken in.
It was nearly a mockery, such gorgeous fabrics adorning so wizened a form.
The maiden Euralyke, grave and smiling, showed me to a pleasant chamber, with frescoes of birds adorning the walls.
Directly opposite me was the massive visage of Asherat-of-the-Sea, wide-eyed and staring, a crescent moon adorning her brow.
It moved quickly across the space that was between Mikhail and Varzil, speeding like an evening bug, and then dropped onto the enormous matrix still adorning the hand of the laranzu.
Hron, who had betrayed Aradia, as well as a brown horse's head and a green spear adorning other banners, but the largest, most numerous, and gaudiest banners bore the head of a dragon, black, on a field of gold.
In olden times, his head would already be adorning one of the bridges over the Potomac.
Both of us had a passion for adorning, then laying bare, our souls, and for testing our minds on every touchstone.
The undulating prairie, waving with flowers, lay spread out before them, more beautiful under nature's bountiful adornings than the most artistic parterre, park or lawn which the hand of man ever reared.