as in decorating
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
you could take a store-bought cake and fancify it so that it looks semi-homemade
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Host of the dinner, Lauren Santo Domingo, also went strapless in a minimalist column by The Row with a fin of seam allowance decorating the back.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025 -
Marta and her friends, twelve women, had spent Saturday night decorating it.—
Mariana Enriquez
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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Although a ladder is needed for adorning the tree with ornaments, the tree is pre-lit, so that tangled strands of lights are a thing of Christmas past.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Thug has managed to find a way to push the envelope all these years later with Uy Scuti, adorning a Druski-esque whiteface that reads as a somewhat subversive take on the current moment’s politics.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Fancifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancifying. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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