adornment

Examples of adorning

adorning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

She sits alone at her dressing table, adorning her hair with roses in anticipation of her lover's arrival.
One advantage to roof drains was that they directed water away from building walls and thus protected stucco plastering and/or sculpture adorning exteriors.
Overall, then, the poet has lavished considerable labour on this passage, adorning the gift-giving ceremony with both litotes and direct commentary.
They are shown in their finery, with ribbons, bonnets or lacey collars adorning their meagre persons.
Not only were women exploited as a useful marketing tool, their sinuous naked bodies adorning countless art nouveau posters, but their importance as consumers was also recognised.
But in my view, the headdresses adorning its facade are primarily emblems of the military rank to be assumed by initiates and only by extension are references to war fare.
I cannot regard this particular measure as adorning anything at all but it certainly touches an infinite number of things.
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