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appulcrare.

to put (something) for the purpose of embellishment [with direct object ‘something e.g. words’ and a ‘onto something else’] (idiomatically translated as English embellish with direct and indirect object reversed)

10 characters4 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

verb/ap.pulˈkra.re/
  1. to put (something) for the purpose of embellishment [with direct object ‘something e.g. words’ and a ‘onto something else’] (idiomatically translated as English embellish with direct and indirect object reversed)

    humorous · literary · obsolete · rare · transitive
Where this word comes from

Derived from a- (“to, towards”) + Classical Latin pulcher (“fair, beautiful”) + -are (1ˢᵗ-conjugation verbal suffix). Coined by Italian author Dante Alighieri for his work Inferno.

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