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bedizenment
noun as in decoration
Example Sentences
He did so, and found that, disguised like harlequins in the flimsy bedizenment which they call Imperialism, they were playing high jinks with Britain's reputation and the chances of freedom for the oppressed in the East.
With the organisation of industry on the grand scale, and the enormous application of machinery in the interests of competitive production for profit, when both art and industry are forced to make their appeal to the unreal and impersonal average, rather than to the real and personal you and me, it is not wonderful that beauty should have become divorced from use, and that attempts to concede its demands, and the desire for it, should too often mean the ill-considered bedizenment of meaningless and unrelated ornament.
An' they have decided that the unduly bedizenment of yourself in red garments is the first and foremost nigrification of the race.
Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."
The bed was a big four-poster, which no bedizenment could bring within the fashion of the day.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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