All 4 Uses of
adorn
in
The House of Mirth
- A solitude was tacitly created for her in the crowded existence of Bellomont, and her friends could not have shown a greater readiness for self-effacement had her wooing been adorned with all the attributes of romance.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- She did, at least, a great deal to adorn it; and as he watched the bright security with which she bore herself, he smiled to think that he should have fancied her in need of help.†
Chpt 2.3
- In the peacock-blue parlour, with its bunches of dried pampas grass, and discoloured steel engravings of sentimental episodes, he looked about him with unconcealed disgust, laying his hat distrustfully on the dusty console adorned with a Rogers statuette.†
Chpt 2.11
- She had been fashioned to adorn and delight; to what other end does nature round the rose-leaf and paint the humming-bird's breast?†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person