as in adorned
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels
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An all-black car with a camera adorned to its roof drove parallel with a black SUV on Fort Worth’s West Lancaster Avenue bridge on Monday, March 23.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2026 -
The melodic closer had the huge crowd energized and swaying along, as the nearly 50-foot stage, fully adorned in LED lights, beamed hypnotic celestial imagery in neon blue.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Mar. 2026
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Both of these, like most of Madrazo’s male portraits, leave the background almost blank; by contrast, his portraits of women (such as Taft’s wife, Anna Sinton Taft) are more abundantly decorated.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Mar. 2026
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In total, the watch is decorated with a dazzling 298 white diamonds totaling approximately 79 carats.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Fancied up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancied%20up. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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