bedizenment

Example Sentences

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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.

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

Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles