bedizenment
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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 Charles Egbert Craffock
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 L. T. Meade
Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
She is puzzled; her notion of a thank-offering was rather that of the Indians, and indeed of the Spaniards,—sacrifices of human victims, and the bedizenment of the Great Spirit's sanctuary with their skulls and bones.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
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 Thomas Carlyle
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