bedizenment
Example Sentences
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Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rosepink, artificial bedizenment.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Her hair has the bedizenment of beads and feathers, which were worn by young girls for as many years as their mothers wore the same.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
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.
From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis
