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- noun Plural form of
adorner .
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Examples
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They employed a special class of servants to perform these operations of the toilet, whom the Greeks called "adorners".
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"adorners," all distinct from one another, crowded each noble mansion, helping forward the general demoralization.
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He comes out of the testosterone-ruled world of weight rooms and action movies, where women are the designated observers and adorners, and where men find their place in the wolf pack through a well-established ordeal of hazing and humiliation.
Hullabaloo 2003
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He comes out of the testosterone-ruled world of weight rooms and action movies, where women are the designated observers and adorners, and where men find their place in the wolf pack through a well-established ordeal of hazing and humiliation.
Hullabaloo 2003
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A fragment of one of the speeches; addressed to the English as the party broke up, gives a fair idea of Abyssinian table eloquence, 'You are the adorners,' (the orator had been decorated with a scarlet cloak;) 'you have given me scarlet broadcloth, and behold I have reserved the gift for this day.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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The "artists" developed in this field of art are the tonsorial, the sartorial, and all those specialized adorners of the body commonly known as "beauty doctors."
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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Why invaders should uproot such innocent adorners of the earth is a mystery.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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[4] Variation -- "The adorners of Athens, the bulwarks of Greece."
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I have often tried to imagine in my visits to the English cathedrals, -- the pristine glory of those edifices, when they stood glowing with gold and picture, fresh from the architects 'and adorners' hands.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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I have often tried to imagine in my visits to the English cathedrals, -- the pristine glory of those edifices, when they stood glowing with gold and picture, fresh from the architects 'and adorners' hands.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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