Elizabeth Berg

My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.

American Author

Maurice Chevalier

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

French Actor

Use 'bedeck' when describing places or objects decorated for special events, like festivals or parties.

Festive Occasions

'Bedeck' implies decoration that is rich or elaborate, not something simple or minimalistic.

Not Simple

Use 'bedeck' to suggest something is made visually attractive or eye-catching through decoration.

Visual Attraction

 with ordinary lives from ordinary towns. But the elaborate costumes that they had bedecked themselves in were quite extraordinary. I say the word "costume" because these were not clothes that had been issued or coordinated by anyone.