bedizenment

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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

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.

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

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

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 Prichard, K. (Kate)