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  • verb Present participle of bedeck.

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Examples

  • There is nothing cuter than a baby orangutan with its tussle of red hair bedecking a mostly bald head and big brown inquisitive eyes sparkling with wisdom, curiosity, and soulfulness.

    Jamie Bechtel: Will Orangutans Become Extinct Before the Conservation Community Gets Its Game on? Jamie Bechtel 2011

  • While many Britons where bedecking their streets in flags and bunting others stayed at home, reflecting the fact that the royal family is not uniformly popular across their realm.

    Mixed Flag-Flying in Rest of U.K. Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • She arrived in a staid navy suit and stared at the gowns and sequins bedecking owners around her.

    Spending the Kitty on Pooches Sophia Hollander 2011

  • The pre-Christmas season was something Cathy enjoyed when she had time for it—enjoyed the shopping, the Christmas card production, the bedecking of her suburban home with thousands of lights.

    Long Way Home Laura Caldwell 2010

  • The move - believed to have been prompted by one worker bedecking his desk in flags -sparked fury last night.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • The move - believed to have been prompted by one worker bedecking his desk in flags -sparked fury last night.

    Thursday morning more expensesgate... Thatsnews 2009

  • Flowers and children bedecking a string, dry petals.

    Ece Ayhan greenintegerblog 2008

  • Aside from the aforementioned toys, nothing is to be found bedecking the tree more interesting than inexpensive twinkle lights, cloth ornaments, and garland.

    Mike Doyle: Macy's State Street Cost Cuts Christmas 2008

  • For as Plutarch saith, [5529] They will be witnesses and trumpeters of their paramours 'good parts, bedecking them with verses and commendatory songs, as we do statues with gold, that they may be remembered and admired of all.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It almost reached the ceiling, and they were bedecking it with crystal moons and golden sun faces and ivory balls with glittering gold trim.

    Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007

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