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adorned

[ uh-dawrnd ]

adjective

  1. decorated or beautified, as by ornaments:

    On the road to Karachi we saw yellow and white taxis and convoys of garishly adorned trucks.

  2. made more pleasing, impressive, etc.; enhanced:

    The university is located in Krakow, Poland, one of the most attractive and culturally adorned cities in Eastern Europe.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of adorn ( def ).

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Other Words From

  • o·ver·a·dorned adjective
  • un·a·dorned adjective
  • well-a·dorned adjective

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Example Sentences

Missy, 37, is a petite, bespectacled gal with a green pixie cut, and her arms are adorned with tattoos.

The story of the fire was certainly not complete, but it was at least coherent, and three of our halftones adorned Page 1.

In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.

Fans will doubtless flock to Austin to see that dress and two others that adorned Vivien Leigh.

Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.

Rouen is interesting for its antiquities, including several venerable and richly adorned Churches which I had no time to visit.

Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.

Many of these like German pipes are made of porcelain, adorned with portraits (p. 149) and landscapes.

In the courts of princes and wealthy natives the vessels and tubes are lavishly adorned with precious metals.

Neither are there any terraces and verandahs adorned with elegant trellis-work and flowers, as there are in other warm countries.

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