All 4 Uses of
adorn
in
War and Peace
- They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.†
Chpt 3 *adornment = decoration
- He liked to talk and he talked well, adorning his speech with terms of endearment and with folk sayings which Pierre thought he invented himself, but the chief charm of his talk lay in the fact that the commonest events—sometimes just such as Pierre had witnessed without taking notice of them—assumed in Karataev's a character of solemn fitness.†
Chpt 12adorning = decorating
- To fluff out her curls, put on fashionable dresses, and sing romantic songs to fascinate her husband would have seemed as strange as to adorn herself to attract herself.†
Chpt 15adorn = decorate
- To adorn herself for others might perhaps have been agreeable—she did not know—but she had no time at all for it.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
to decorate -- especially a person