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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedeck.

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Examples

  • Buenos Aires's richly mixed heritage and turbulent past seem to play into every facet of its culture, including its dark cinema, diverse yet perpetually meat-heavy cuisine, the wild street art that bedecks the neighborhoods of Palermo and Villa Crespo, a counterpoint to the graceful décor of the bars and eateries.

    Buenos Aires 2011

  • It claims the front and back pages and bedecks the tabloids.

    Opening Peace and Justice Through Economic Transparency David Vognar 2010

  • How it bedecks, deflowers, beflowers a supra-militarized past by dragging it into a dingy military relic!

    galleon trade edition 2008

  • It claims the front and back pages and bedecks the tabloids.

    David Vognar: Opening Peace and Justice Through Economic Transparency 2010

  • A wondrous spell of gramarye like Kohl bedecks his eyne,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • We received a response tonight to the inquiry we sent Purina on 4/09/07 asking if there was any truth to the rumors (which we spread) that the recurrent "Woman And Kitty" imagery that bedecks numbers of their pet food packages seemed to recall, if not draw directly from, the "Madonna And Child" motif (undoubtedly to serve manipulative marketing ends).

    Purina On Virgin Mary-Esque Packaging: They "Reflect The Close Bond Between The Consumer And Their Pet." - The Consumerist 2007

  • Common to them were all the fantastic and enormous shapes with which Nature bedecks her robes beneath the fierce suns and fattening rains of the tropic forest.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • We received a response tonight to the inquiry we sent Purina on 4/09/07 asking if there was any truth to the rumors (which we spread) that the recurrent "Woman And Kitty" imagery that bedecks numbers of their pet food packages seemed to recall, if not draw directly from, the "Madonna And Child" motif (undoubtedly to serve manipulative marketing ends).

    The Consumerist: April 2007 Archives 2007

  • This is one of those occasions when the woman bedecks the jewels and not vice versa.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

  • This is one of those occasions when the woman bedecks the jewels and not vice versa.

    Willow V.C. Andrews 2002

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