"unadorn" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Anderton, Letters from a Country House, page 57:",
          "text": "No ugly monument of their ancestors disfigures the church walls, no hideous brick box unadorns the country churchyard, and a plain stone, perhaps moss grown, is all the record of their fathers they can show.",
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          "ref": "1921, Pacific Rural Press - Volume 101, page 121:",
          "text": "In connection with this splendid record I want to point a moral (though it will unadorn the tale), for I recently heard a city man say in a public meeting: “Why, these dairymen are getting rich. They have cows that will make a thousand pounds of butter in a year and look what they get for butter.”",
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          "text": "Sanchez glosses Garrula quo comix with the familiar warning against female loquacity — \"silence adorns virgins, chattering unadorns them\"",
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        "To add a feature or embellishment that makes something uglier; uglify."
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          "ref": "1997, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, The Paris Review, →ISBN, page 54:",
          "text": "Yet, I have long tried to unadorn Myself for you. I would toss all the trinkets And lavalieres into a box to escape Worshiping.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, Gale Group, Newsmakers - Issue 4, →ISBN, page 281:",
          "text": "He alerts them to every conceivable pitfall, unadorns them of every emotional bias, slices through every pie in the sky as if it's lemon meringue.",
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          "ref": "2018, Susan N. Kigul, Hilda J. Twongyeirwe, Wondering and Wandering of Hearts: Poems from Uganda, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "I will unadorn my neck Tugging away the heavy priceless pearls that have hung around my neck and leave my almost invisible neck bare",
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        },
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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