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• v  make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
• v  be beautiful to look at
  Flowers adorned the tables everywhere
• v  furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
• a  provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

• Google is obsessive about food, offering its employees three free gourmet meals a day that can be eaten in a cafeteria adorned by artwork created by Google employees.
• He's wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt loudly adorned with wine bottles and bunches of red and green grapesthe same outfit he wore to work.
• Even in pre-Nazi Europe, the good-luck talisman adorned everything from Celtic art to Finnish Air Force medals.

• decorate
• adorn
• grace
• ornament
• embellish
• beautify
• deck
• invest
• clothe
• decorated

• unadorned

News & Articles

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• Chic Meets Unique | Books, coffee, books, food, and oh yeah, books.
  Behind a simple brick front hides an eclectic gem. From the minute you step through the door, it's clear that this establishment isn't just your average deli/coffee shop. The décor is quite Last-Century-Library. The walls are adorned with columns of books, and books also form counter bases th... By Shire Lyon.
  June 12, 2013 - Urban Tulsa
• Residence Inn by Marriott to open soon in Carmel Valley
  The hotel is adorned with modern art, contemporary sculptures, custom photography and original oil paintings.
  June 11, 2013 - Del Mar Times
• The Stickers on Edward Snowden’s Laptop
  Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about the scope of American government surveillance, adorned his laptop with stickers showing support for two digital privacy groups.
  June 10, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Leland Yee in Politico (blog)
  They include a fax with some really scatological, racist language and "a graphic of an American flag adorned pickup truck dragging a noose. The (very graphic) emails and fax are after the jump. It is quite disturbing that such racist and homophobic...
• William Penn in Zenit News Agency
  Saint John tells us: "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth ...... and I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven, from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold...
• John-Paul Langbroek in NEWS.com.au
  Glass pipes are available for $20 (and) ceramic bongs, many of them adorned with pop culture icons, are also freely available and on display,Mr Langbroek said. "One store was even promoting a 'Schoolies Spesh' on the items."