Definitions

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  • adjective covered; encrusted; arrayed
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bedeck.

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Examples

  • [Relocated Footnote (1): I translate _apiffez_, "bedecked," assuming from the context that the author meant to write "_attifez_."

    Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis

  • Photos from the days after their return show a generously mustachioed, medal-bedecked Momand standing in the back of a parade car.

    A Space Oddity 2010

  • The masts of said ship are bedecked in rhythmic gymnastics ribbons, and it is crewed by beach volleyballers and the 1996 French synchronised swimming team, who had planned a routine based on the Final Solution.

    Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up | Marina Hyde 2011

  • On the cover, Charlize sprawls on a white chaise lounge in front of a green screen "pool," bedecked in a black and white dress as she stares down the camera.

    Charlize Theron Falls Victim To Photoshopping On 'Los Angeles Confidential' Cover (PHOTOS) 2011

  • It was very Catholic, with a plethora of candles and an impressive altar of Italian marble bedecked by eighteen statues.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • Everywhere there were parades and flag-bedecked, horn-honking rickshaw convoys, with young men, many of them unemployed, shouting and setting off masses of firecrackers.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • In the evening this jealously-guarded Catalan classic, its walls bedecked with FC Barcelona basketball shirts and photos, is often packed with loud and cheery gangs of friends meeting for a few bites before hitting the town.

    10 of the best tapas bars in Barcelona 2011

  • It was one of those clear wintry days when the sun bedecked the skies with all of its radiant beauty.

    L'ombra mostrarsi Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • After all, we can easily arrange to sit far from our exes, across the flower-bedecked aisle, so as not to roil the festive day.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • It was one of those clear wintry days when the sun bedecked the skies with all of its radiant beauty.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

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