Adorn

Definition of adorn:

part of speech: verb

To deck; to ornament.

part of speech: verb

To deck or dress. Also obsolete form of pa. p. ADORNED.

part of speech: verb

To beautify; to dignify; to ornament; to decorate; to bedeck.

Usage examples for adorn:

• Cavour, said Lord Palmerston in the classic home of constitutional liberty, the British House of Commons, left a name 'to point a moral and adorn a tale. "Cavour", Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco.

• They stand as a lasting revelation to all mankind- a distinct and definite proclamation that the Irish people, century after century, were able to raise and adorn some of the finest buildings in stone that western civilization has seen or known. "The Glories of Ireland", Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox.

• And thus, far from being moved by his misfortunes at the moment, he threw him in chains forthwith, and subsequently had him put to death, after keeping him to adorn his triumph. "A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI.", Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot.

• Yet nature would send more and more of the burnished gold to adorn Tessibel's head, and not until to- night had she ever heard one word in praise of it. "Tess of the Storm Country", Grace Miller White.