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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 fashionplay

  Familiarity information: BEDAUBED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEDAUBED (adjective)


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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