bedizened

• But it was a sorry sight to see the poor little body, looking much like a bedizened monkey, so paraded. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
• Sail trimmers, to your stations, and be ready to go about Two minutes later the Adventure slid square athwart the towering, gilt-bedizened stern of the Spaniard, and one after another, as they were brought to bear, her ordnance belched forth their charges of round and canister, smashing the Spanish gingerbread work to splinters, shivering every pane of glass in the stern windows, and sweeping the decks of the stranger from end to end, the deadly nature of the discharge being evidenced by the outburst of shrieks which instantly followed aboard the stranger Well done, gallants!" —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• "What!" exclaimed the gold-bedizened smart young horse artillery commander, "do you mean to say you are going to allot Territorial horse artillery batteries to your mounted brigade? —  1914
• Our enemies contrasted the modest bearing of the American soldier with the conceited strut and insolent swagger of their own gold-bedizened militarios_, who were wont on all occasions to "take the wall" of them. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• That dolt Ellis, and that conceited chap Bracebridge, will soon find that their finely-bedizened machine is cut out. —  Ernest Bracebridge School Days

Definitions (0)