All 5 Uses of
adorn
in
Bleak House
- She sits in her room (in a side passage on the ground floor, with an arched window commanding a smooth quadrangle, adorned at regular intervals with smooth round trees and smooth round blocks of stone, as if the trees were going to play at bowls with the stones), and the whole house reposes on her mind.†
Chpt 7-9adorned = decorated
- Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.†
Chpt 10-12adornments = decorations
- Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require.†
Chpt 19-21 *adornment = decoration
- She adorned and graced it so that it became another place.†
Chpt 58-60adorned = decorated
- If the public have the benefit, and if the country have the adornment, of this great grasp, it must be paid for in money or money's worth, sir.†
Chpt 64-65adornment = decoration
Definition:
to decorate -- especially a person