bedeck
verb (used with object)
to deck out; adorn, especially in a showy or gaudy manner.
bedecked
Example Sentences
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There was even a guard of honour with team-mates bedecked in kilts.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Matt Gibson, 52, moors his sage-green houseboat, bedecked with plants, on the Regent's Canal near central London.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
The coffin, bedecked with flowers, was opened at a pavilion in the cemetery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
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
On March 10, 1962, a glamorous Katherine Johnson, bedecked in pearls and an elegant suit that would have made Jackie Kennedy proud, smiled from the front page of the Pittsburgh Courier.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
