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 Craffock, Charles Egbert

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 Earle, Alice Morse

Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rose-pink, artificial bedizenment.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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 Carlyle, Thomas