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    They were meant to sit at the feet of their master before a fire in a manor house—not adorn the hands of a willow in the lobby of a grand hotel….  (source)
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    They knelt at my feet and the woman held her hands up, long-fingered and bare of any adornment.  (source)
    adornment = decoration
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    There were also precious stones, gold masks adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues embedded with jewels.  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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    Buck's Peak looked the way it always did at Christmas—a snowy spire, adorned with evergreens—  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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    Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.†  (source)
    adorn = decorate
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    Bob's tail makes me dizzy and confused. It has meanings within meanings, like human words. "I am sad," it says. "I am happy." It says, "Beware! I may be tiny, but my teeth are sharp." Gorillas don't have any use for tails. Our feelings are uncomplicated. Our rumps are unadorned.  (source)
    unadorned = not decorated
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadorned means not and reverses the meaning of adorned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I REACH MY street five minutes before I usually do, according to my watch—which is the only adornment Abnegation allows, and only because it's practical.†  (source)
    adornment = decoration
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    From a distance she looked like a teenager, a colorful cap adorning long hair that blew in the wind.  (source)
    adorning = decorating
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    His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress.†  (source)
    adorns = decorates
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    Though all the old adornments were long mouldered or destroyed, and though all was befouled and blasted with the comings and goings of the monster, Thorin knew every passage and every turn.  (source)
    adornments = decorations
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    61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.†  (source)
    adorneth = decorates
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She adorneth" in older English, today we say "She adorns."
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    Her gentlewomen, like the Nereids, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings: at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office.†  (source)
    adornings = decorations
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    Unimaginable headdresses adorned astonishing bodies so eager for more life, they frolicked as though caught in a circus tent, not a single bead of water.  (source)
    adorned = decorated
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