Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bedizening; the state of being bedizened; that which bedizens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which
bedizens . - noun The act of
dressing , or the state of being dressed,tawdrily .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Absentees had just returned from the coast, and the youths were brave in their gaudy bedizenment, their new barsatis, their soharis, and long cloths of bright new kaniki, with which they had adorned themselves behind some bush before they had suddenly appeared dressed in all this finery.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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The night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Pummice, the splendid house-painters at Dollington, arrived with his artists and charwomen to give the Assembly Room its annual touching-up and bedizenment, preparatory to the Hunt Ball.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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Therefore, if he were to seek a match in a proper spirit, he should weigh the ancestry, and not be smitten by the looks; for though looks were a lure to temptation, yet their empty bedizenment had tarnished the white simplicity of many a man.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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The night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.
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Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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From the Hôtel du Chancelier the winter view over the bright, beautiful city, glittering only yesterday in its winter bedizenment of frost and snow, was changed.
A Modern Mercenary Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard 1899
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Chinamen poured down on him, a hideous bedizenment of vermilion war-devils painted on their blue tunics and banners and shields.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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