Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
decked .
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Examples
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She was grown more notorious than a way-mark,285 for her seductive genius, and outdid the fair both in theory and practice, and she was noted for her swimming gait, flexile and delicate, albeit she was full five feet in height and by all the boons of fortune deckt and dight, with strait arched brows twain, as they were the crescent moon of
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Catharina, having deckt her child in costly habiliments, layed it in her armes, and came with the servants into the dyning Hall, and sate down (as the Knight had appointed) at the upper end of the Table, and then Signior Gentile spake thus.
The Decameron 2004
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Then hanging up her Lampe fresh fild with oyle, and clearly lighted, she deckt her selfe in so decent sort, as if she had bin in no bed all that night.
The Decameron 2004
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Wenn das Kind ertrunken ist, deckt man den Brunnen.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Upon which she threw her downy arms about me, and led me to a plat of ground, the pride of nature, deckt with a gay variety of every pleasing object.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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After this, the old woman presented me to Chrysis; who was very glad she had recover'd her mistress's treasure; and therefore hastening to her, she conducted me to a most pleasant retreat, deckt with all that nature cou'd produce to please the sight.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Being thus clad and deckt, they did set it in an azured chair and in a litter to carry it on their shoulders.
Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs 1922
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Being thus clad and deckt, they did set it in an azured chair and in a litter to carry it on their shoulders.
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Being thus clad and deckt, they did set it in an azured chair and in a litter to carry it on their shoulders.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The face of Nature Thou hast deckt with beauty that enchants,
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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