bedizenment
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
