Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dressed; adorned.
- Furnished with a deck or decks: as, a three-decked ship.
- In heraldry, edged or purfled with another color: thus, the feathers of a bird of one tincture are decked of another tincture. Also
marguetté .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective clothed or adorned with finery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deck . - adjective
Adorned orembellished . - adjective in combination Having a specified number or type of
decks .
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Examples
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Namely, the mighty choice sight gag of Wolowitz walking in decked out like an Adam Lambert wannabe sporting a coif that was somehow equal parts emo and rockabilly.
'Big Bang Theory': Sheldon makes Penny his lab rat | EW.com 2009
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East, through a sandy plain decked with great numbers of Rocky mounds, which were all cross cracked, at the top, leaving cavities in some cases, large enough to shelter both men and horses, from the balls or arrows of
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Taking up his bright shield with a 1,000 moons and his massive and celestial sword decked with gold, the mighty Ashvatthama rushed against the sons of Draupadi and began to lay about him with his weapon.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Then taking by the hilt his sword decked with gold, he drew it from its scabbard, and made signs to the chosen youths of the Greeks to hold the virgin.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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The grave brown peasantry, with no great accent of costume, but with sundry small ones -- decked, that is, in cheap fineries of scarlet and yellow -- made a mass of motley colour in the high wind-stirred light.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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As the pile grows higher, each log is "decked," that is, rolled up parallel poles laid slanting up the face of the pile, by means of a chain passed under and over the log and back over the pile, Fig. 11.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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On another occasion, said Hartman, Marines had "decked" a worker from another embassy during a presumably friendly game of broomball, a form of ice hockey.
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On another occasion, said Hartman, Marines had "decked" a worker from another embassy during a presumably friendly game of broomball, a form of ice hockey.
CNN.com 2010
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Smaller storage modules, such as decked pallet racks and shelving, may become more appropriate.
unknown title 2009
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"decked" on immense piles, sometimes a mile long and filling the whole river from bank to bank.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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