bedecked

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The Panshanger Community Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, was bedecked with Union flag bunting and plastic chairs.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

The usually sleepy Laotian capital Vientiane has an uncharacteristic buzz, bedecked with flags and T-shirt vendors ahead of commemorations of 50 years of communist rule Tuesday, but for many young people history carries little weight.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

The coffin, bedecked with flowers, was opened at a pavilion in the cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

Smudgy cartoonlike pastels coexisted with raw plaster works and jewel boxes bedecked elaborately with wool, glass, straight pins, knives and sometimes taxidermized birds — animistic objects that resembled little else being made in the 1960s.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The beaming faces of large-bellied men in three-piece suits and matronly-looking women bedecked with jewelry gazed up at him.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown