bedizenment

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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

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 Craffock, Charles Egbert