wizened
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His mottled livery was grass-stained and earth-stained, and he had dizened it with a kind of woodland finery.
From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
Accordingly, Jessy was dizened out in all sorts of finery: her thoughts were wholly bent on fashions and flirting; and her mother's vanity, joined to her own, nearly turned her brain.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Edgeworth, Maria
Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Wholly, in their best apparel, brave men, and beautifully dizened women, most of whom have lovers there; swearing, by the eternal Heavens and this green-growing all-nutritive Earth, that France is free!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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