Maana ya kamusi ya neno "kupamba" ni kupamba au kuongeza uzuri wa kitu au mtu. Inaweza pia kumaanisha kuongeza mwonekano wa kitu au mtu mwenye mapambo au madoido mengine. Visawe vya "kupamba" ni pamoja na kupamba, kupamba, kupamba, pambo na uzuri.
1. A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came distinctly into view.
2. I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
3. Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens, who are all the rest of the sciences and she must avail herself of the help of all, and all derive their lustre from her.
4. Hence the jewels and rubies that adorn my pockets.
5. For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.
6. The wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms, who abound in all the excellencies that can adorn a rational creature, have no name for this vice in their language which has no terms to express anything that is evil, except those whereby they describe the detestable qualities of their yahoos among which they were not able to distinguish this of pride for want of thoroughly understanding human nature, as it shows itself in other countries where that animal presides.
7. Though it was lovely, I knew very well it was no gift but meant to adorn my grave.
8. Or does she dream past the frontier, a quicksilver cavern to adorn forever?
9. I cannot but perceive that this so called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the fine arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump for I remember that the greatest genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty-five feet on level ground.
10. If they were permanently congealed, and small enough to be clutched, they would, perchance, be carried off by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn the heads of emperors but being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor.