bedeck
verb (used with object)
to deck out; adorn, especially in a showy or gaudy manner.
had bedecked
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past perfectof bedeck.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Even the withered flowers that had bedecked his death-couch were preserved with pious care, and no unloving hand could touch a single article that had once felt the impress of the now palsied fingers.
From The Elm Tree Tales by F. Irene Burge (Frances Irene Burge) Smith
After these parades there was dancing by the soldiers and belles who had bedecked themselves in their Sunday best and come out to be wooed by a soldier in blue.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives by Work Projects Administration
They had borne no blossom that year that he could remember, and the white tufts of American blight had bedecked their trunks.
From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain
Seven-and-twenty truck loads presently reached Middelburg in most defiant mood, for they waved their home-made Transvaal flags in our faces; they had bedecked themselves with Transvaal ribbons and Transvaal rosettes almost from head to foot.
From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry
None of them had "crimped" and none had bedecked their tresses with artificial flowers.
From The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington
