Adorning

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adornment. archaic

    "Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i’ the eyes, And made their bends adornings […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of adorn form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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deckdecoratebeautifybeautifybedeckdeck

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"Sometimes they sportively began to pelt each other with apples, and on other occasions they amused themselves with adorning each other's hair, which they braided in various forms."

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