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BEDAUBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bedaubed mean?
• BEDAUBED (adjective)
The adjective BEDAUBED has 1 sense:
1. ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion
Familiarity information: BEDAUBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Context examples
So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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