gadrooned

gadrooned
adjective /ɡəˈdruːnd/
Adorned with gadroons.

arriving safely, forty minutes later, at the bourne of breakfast, the only breakfast worth the name, the cheminot’s breakfast, the great bowl of coffee laced and gadrooned and filigreed with rum.


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