bedizenment

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Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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

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

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

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