The Wonderful World Of Words, 4/5/17
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.
I believe in pink.
I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. .
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.
I believe in pink.
I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
DEFINITION:
To make more beautiful, more like Adonis
SYNONYMS:
Primp
Beautify
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Latin (adonis- + -ize "to render")
PRONUNCIATION:
[a-don-ize]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
8
USAGE AND EXAMPLES
He had given Ronsard full particulars about the splendid way in which Elizabeth loved to dress and "ADONISE" herself, to mix gold and pearls with her " longues tresses blondes," and he had told him how she succeeded so well in making herself admirable that the sight would move even "l'estomach d'un barbare Scythois."
--Shakespeare in France
Jean Jules Jusserand, 1899
'It's no use expecting me to bring you back into fashion if you don't ADONISE yourself a trifle.' 'Then I won't expect it,' he said amiably. 'I never was one of your dapper-dogs, and it's too late to change my habits, and if you're thinking I should look well in a wasp-waisted coat, and with the points of my collars reaching half-way up my cheeks, you are letting your imagination runn off with you, Letty - take my word for it!"
--Black Sheep
Georgette Heyer, 2008
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