as in decorated
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming
gone are the days when the high school prom was held in the gym, which had been gussied up for the occasion
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As a solo artist, Bowman was equally decorated.—
Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
25 Mar. 2026 -
The bright, cheery room, decorated with technicolor serapes and paintings of idyllic tropical-village scenes, felt almost like a taunt.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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Into such a place came thespian artists draped in their finest including Cate Blanchett, a nominee for her performance as Arkadina in director Thomas Ostermeier’s thrilling Barbican Theatre production of Chekhov’s The Seagull.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2026
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Sidewalks, restaurants, hotels and coffee shops were packed with technology industry workers draped in the bright green badge lanyards from the five-day event.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Gussied up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gussied%20up. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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