bedizenment
Example Sentences
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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
The bed was a big four-poster, which no bedizenment could bring within the fashion of the day.
From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Charles Egbert Craffock
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
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.
From A Bunch of Cherries A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade
Much in the same way was Cluffe affected over his bedizenment in relation to his own lady-love; but in a calmer and more long-headed fashion.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
