bedecking
- present participle of bedeck.
Example Sentences
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It was a show of tradition as the procession approached the castle, with the bright flag bedecking the late queen’s coffin standing out amid the more somber tones.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2022
“The Abolitionists hoped that bedecking slaves in Union blue and enlisting us in a fight for our own freedom would make men of us,” Etheridge says.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022
The magnate hated it, and in 1904, he sold it to Charles Lang Freer, who reassembled it in the States, bedecking it with ceramics from Iran, Japan, China, Syria and Korea.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018
This goes some way to explain those famous collars bedecking the otherwise sober, black judicial robes.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2018
But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
