All 13 Uses
adorn
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Angels & Demons
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- Kohler took a sharp left and entered a wide hallway adorned with awards and commendations.†
Chpt 7 *adorned = decorated
- Adorned with 140 statues of saints, martyrs, and angels, the Herculean edifice stretched two football fields wide and a staggering six long.†
Chpt 33-34
- The room was a lushly adorned Renaissance library complete with inlaid bookshelves, oriental carpets, and colorful tapestries ...and yet the room bristled with high-tech gear-banks of computers, faxes, electronic maps of the Vatican complex, and televisions tuned to CNN.†
Chpt 35-36
- Red marble floors sprawled out in all directions to walls adorned with vivid frescoes.†
Chpt 39-40
- Some other sculptor did the interior adornments.†
Chpt 61-62adornments = decorations
- Langdon turned to the plaque: ART OF THE CHIGI CHAPEL While the architecture is Raphael's, all interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†
Chpt 69-70
- All interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†
Chpt 69-70
- It was a scà tola-a small, unadorned, marble box.†
Chpt 93-94unadorned = not decoratedstandard 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.
- He spoke in modern terms, unadorned and pure.†
Chpt 93-94
- And as if that were not enough, leading solely and directly to the castle's main entrance stood the famous Bridge of Angels ....a dramatic approachway adorned by twelve towering angels carved by none other than Bernini himself.†
Chpt 105-106adorned = decorated
- Overhead, the archway was adorned with a tiny carved cherub.†
Chpt 107-108
- He was wearing a blue paramedic's jumpsuit that zipped up the front and was adorned with cloth badges that apparently depicted his numerous qualifications.†
Chpt 127-128
- A powerful man adorned in lavish purple and yellow regalia stared down at him.†
Chpt 137
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)