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  • adjective Adorned with gadroons.

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From gadroon.

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Examples

  • An English gold-mounted scent bottle, a gilt-bronze inkstand with gadrooned lid, a cracked horn spoon, and a small marble clock topped with two swans drinking.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • Cigarette smoke drifted in the air, and on a polished wooden table with gadrooned legs stood a dozen bottles of various drinks.

    Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965

  • I shelved the oddity, smiled, located Sophie Brandau in the glittering throng, whispered to Tye to have somebody spill a little vino rosso on the lovely Sophie’s dress, caught up a silver tray — gadrooned, my favourite style — and briskly went to start my compulsory courting.

    The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991

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