Definition of Bedecking

1. Verb. (present participle of bedeck) ¹

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Definition of Bedecking

1. bedeck [v] - See also: bedeck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedecking

bedding plane
bedding plant
beddings
beddy
beddy-bye
beddy-byes
bede
bedeafen
bedeafened
bedeafening
bedeafens
bedeal
bedeck
bedecked
bedecked(p)
bedecking (current term)
bedecks
bedeem
bedeen
bedeguar
bedeguars
bedehouse
bedehouses
bedel
bedell
bedells
bedelries
bedelry
bedels
bedelve

Literary usage of Bedecking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... bedecking the earth with her loveliest flowers : And murmuring, and singing, each streamlet and rill Comes dancing adown yon time-beaten hill. ..."

2. The Puritans by Arlo Bates (1898)
"XXVIII bedecking ORNAMENTS OF PRAISE Love's Labor's Lost, ii. 1 WHEN Maurice Wynne's bitter word stung her, Berenice Morison stood for a second too ..."

3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"... Mrs. Durbeyfield hung a black cloak outside the casement, and so made a large reflector of the panes, as it is the wont of bedecking cottagers to do. ..."

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