Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdecked
Literary usage of Overdecked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... has this Christmas i overdecked the church with greens, that he k quite spoiled
my prospect; insomuch that I bai scarce seen the young baronet I dress ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"The sharp point glides easily through grass and sedge: they are overdecked, and
draw but litt'e water." The spears all have point* made from walrus ivory. ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... Devising ways with her good man to glose [explain away]; But especially if
that he her suspect, With a hood shall he unawares be overdecked. ..."
4. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical -legenary-picturesque by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (1902)
"Beyond an overdecked river side-wheeler that sends a tidal wave to port and
starboard as she goes, and sets all the river rocking, there is the trim, ..."
5. Plain-towns of Italy: The Cities of Old Venetia by Egerton Ryerson Williams (1911)
"... from whose umbrageous depths peeped glistening villa-towers and grim, castellated
keeps. Within the church I found one of those overdecked, ..."
6. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Their toilettes are costly and tawdry, whilst their heads, ears, nose, neck,
anas, wrists, fingers, aukles and toes are overdecked with jewels, ..."
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