Word: bedecked
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...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...
...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...