All 6 Uses
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- One week later the invitations were printed, and two weeks after that she was adorned and adjusted by countless aunts, countless cousins hovering around her.†
Chpt 1adorned = decorated
- Though it is from Ashima's father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers.†
Chpt 2 *adorn = decorate
- She teaches him to memorize a four-line children's poem by Tagore, and the names of the deities adorning the ten-handed goddess Durga during pujo: Saraswati with her swan and Kartik with his peacock to her left, Lakshmi with her owl and Ganesh with his mouse to her right.†
Chpt 3adorning = decorating
- The walls are adorned with prints of roosters and herbs and an arrangement of copper skillets.†
Chpt 6adorned = decorated
- He spends entire weekends holed up in the house, reading books from Gerald and Lydia's shelves, admiring the sunlight that filters through the enormous unadorned windows during the course of the day.†
Chpt 6unadorned = 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.
- This is the way he still finds her most ravishing, unadorned, aware that it is a way she is willing to look for no one but him.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)