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bedizen - 3 dictionary results

be⋅di⋅zen

[bi-dahy-zuhn, -diz-uhn]
–verb (used with object)
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.

Origin:
1655–65; be- + dizen


be⋅di⋅zen⋅ment, noun
be·di·zen   (bĭ-dī'zən, -dĭz'ən)   
tr.v.   be·di·zened, be·di·zen·ing, be·di·zens
To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner.

[be- + dizen.]
be·di'zen·ment n.

Bedizen

Be*diz"en\, v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. --Sir W. Scott.
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