Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bedeck
nounbedecking (plural bedeckings)
plural bedeckings
- An ornament.
He has titles enough to greatness, without borrowing plumes from the gratuitous bedeckings of prurient writers.
1856, Charles Edwards Lester, Edwin Williams, The Napoleon Dynasty: Or, the History of the Bonaparte Family
Translations
German Ornament, Verzierung
- Ornamentornament
- Verzierungornament
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