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deck out
Idioms and Phrases
Decorate, dress up, as in They were all decked out in their best clothes . [Mid-1700s]Example Sentences
They must not be compelled to deck out their houses in honor of religious processions, nor to swear on St. Anthony's arm.
For an instant she had the naïve, melodramatic instinct of youth to deck out its little events in the guise of crises.
The French chamarrer, to deck out, or bedizen, is said to be a word of kindred origin.
But she used to shut herself up in her room in the evenings and deck out for Mr. Sam in her best things.
Inga, Mildrid's cousin, herself a married woman now, had come to deck out the bride.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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