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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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
Her face is “touched up,” or painted and lined by a professional adorner of women, and she utterly destroys the health of her skin by her foolish use of cosmetics.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
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 it is the latter branch of his art which principally concerns us now, the art of a maker and adorner of stories.
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by Winifred Turner
