bedizenment
Example Sentences
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Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rose-pink, artificial bedizenment.
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
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.
From A Modern Mercenary by K. (Kate) Prichard
