be·deck

[bih-dek]
verb (used with object)
to deck out; adorn, especially in a showy or gaudy manner.

Origin:
1560–70; be- + deck

un·be·decked, adjective


array, decorate, ornament; beautify, enhance.
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bedeck (bɪˈdɛk) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
vb
(tr) to cover with decorations; adorn

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bedeck
1560s, from be- + deck (v.).
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Example sentences
If you must be fashionable, the prevailing fashion wisdom goes, bedeck yourself
  in only one outfit dictated by the style tyrants.
Hundreds and hundreds of varieties and a profusion of blossoms border the
  trails and bedeck the hillsides.
The image is made literal in the flowers that are grown to bedeck the corpses
  and end up in the flames of cremation.
Tiffany lamps bedeck the ceilings, and the extensive woodwork is made of
  southern white oak.
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