bedizenment
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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
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
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
She is puzzled; her notion of a thank-offering was rather that of the Indians, and indeed of the Spaniards,—sacrifices of human victims, and the bedizenment of the Great Spirit's sanctuary with their skulls and bones.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
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
