Crossword clues for bedecking
bedecking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedeck \Be*deck"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedecked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bedecking.] To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands.
--Pennant.
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Wiktionary
n. An ornament. vb. (present participle of bedeck English)
Usage examples of "bedecking".
The reason behind bedecking the infant with jewelry, Lisa's father had explained to her a long time ago, was to show love for the mitzvah, the biblical commandment.
Andrew and the great red cross of the Temple bedecking her masts and rigging, her culver ins bellowing out their warlike chorus.
A naughty child, Niketas commented, who, still without any knowledge of joys and sorrows, devoted his days to the hunt and to his horses, playing with young boys, while at court various suitors aimed at winning his mother the dowager, covering themselves with perfume like idiots and bedecking themselves with necklaces as women do, others dedicating themselves to squandering public funds, each pursuing his own desires and combating the othersas if an erect supporting column had been removed and everything was tilting the wrong way.
As the beauties of our own land delight in bedecking themselves with fanciful articles of jewellery, suspending them from their ears, hanging them about their necks, and clasping them around their wrists.