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dizen

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di⋅zen

  [dahy-zuhn, diz-uhn]
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–verb (used with object) Archaic.
to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.
Origin:
1520–30; dis- bunch of flax on a distaff + -en 1

Related forms:
di⋅zen⋅ment, noun
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di·zen   (dī'zən, dĭz'ən)   
tr.v.   di·zened, di·zen·ing, di·zens Archaic
To deck out in fine clothes and ornaments; bedizen.

[Possibly Middle Dutch disen, to prepare a distaff with flax for spinning, from Middle Low German dise, disene, bunch of flax.]
di'zen·ment n.
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