bedizenment

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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 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

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)

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