All 3 Uses of
adorn
in
The Age of Innocence
- After dinner, according to immemorial custom, Mrs. Archer and Janey trailed their long silk draperies up to the drawing-room, where, while the gentlemen smoked below stairs, they sat beside a Carcel lamp with an engraved globe, facing each other across a rosewood work-table with a green silk bag under it, and stitched at the two ends of a tapestry band of field-flowers destined to adorn an "occasional" chair in the drawing-room of young Mrs. Newland Archer.†
Chpt 5
- It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a blueberry pie under a cage.†
Chpt 23 *
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person