All 4 Uses
adorn
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The real story, as Dad saw it, was simple and unadorned: A flag needed to be replaced.†
Chpt 14.unadorned = 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.
- The bond poster fluttered from street lamps; it adorned buses and taxicabs; it festooned the windows of banks, factories, post offices, and department stores.†
Chpt 16.adorned = decorated
- But the three chose instead to tell the unadorned truth: They had simply put up a replacement flag.†
Chpt 16.unadorned = 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.
- Then he worked three more years to adorn them with uniforms and equipment.†
Chpt 18. *adorn = decorate
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)