bedizenment

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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

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 Kingsley, Charles

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

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