Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of bedizening; the state of being bedizened; that which bedizens.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
Etymologies
- bedizen + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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 night foreman of the station, a person of bedizenment and pride, stared at them as they alighted at Chelmsford and glanced around like strangers.”
“Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Chinamen poured down on him, a hideous bedizenment of vermilion war-devils painted on their blue tunics and banners and shields.”
“She transacted her business, went to a shop and purchased out of one of Florence's sovereigns some gay ribbons and laces for her own bedizenment, and then returned home.”
“It is well for the truth to have all these, and shine in them, but for falsehood they are merely meretricious, the bedizenment of the wanton; they atone for nothing, they count for nothing.”
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