adorn
- to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
- to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, etc.; enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.
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Contemporary Examples of adorned
Missy, 37, is a petite, bespectacled gal with a green pixie cut, and her arms are adorned with tattoos.
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In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.
Fans will doubtless flock to Austin to see that dress and two others that adorned Vivien Leigh.
Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.
The adorned temple of Haldi was described as having multiple gates, where large numbers of animals were sacrificed.
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Historical Examples of adorned
It was built of gold and silver, and adorned with pearls and precious stones.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
Suddenly the whole face of it was adorned with a verdant, undulating robe.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
The Gallic chieftains were adorned with gold necklaces, bracelets, and rings.
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
All along the walls were numerous prayer-barrels, adorned with ribbons.
The Unknown Life of Jesus ChristNicolas Notovitch
The stem is equal, stuffed, adorned often with pits of a darker color.
The Mushroom, Edible and OtherwiseM. E. Hard
adorn
- to decorateshe adorned her hair with flowers
- to increase the beauty, distinction, etc, of
Word Origin for adorn
Word Origin and History for adorned
adorn
late 14c., "to decorate, embellish," also "be an ornament to," from Old French aorner "to order, arrange, dispose, equip; adorn," from Latin adornare "equip, provide, embellish," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + ornare "prepare, furnish, adorn, fit out," from stem of ordo "order" (see order (n.)). The -d- was reinserted by French scribes 14c., in English from late 15c. Related: Adorned; adorning.