adorn
verb (used with object)
to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments.
adorner
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a word derived from
adorn.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps he muttered this interrogatory in the spirit of an improver and adorner of nature.—It was answered by the fall of a gentle footstep.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
He was a mighty builder and splendid adorner of cities; all that remained unsystematized in the Augustan system, he reduced to perfect system and order.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
But he supplied his own decorations, and made them so elaborate that the most skilful adorner would have found it difficult to add to them.
From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards
But the illustrious adorner of female loveliness had already resumed his reading.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Émile Gaboriau
He tried to make out the design that had once colored the faded carpet on the floor, and wondered about the dead artist in Japan, the adorner of his bureau.
From The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
