bedizenment

Example Sentences

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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 Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

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

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 Meade, L. T.