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Definition of Bedizenments
1. bedizenment [n] - See also: bedizenment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedizenments
Literary usage of Bedizenments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... silver lace, buckles in their shoes, black silk bags on their backs, and I
don't know what insane emblems ot servility and absurd bedizenments of folly. ..."
2. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"The women wore no ribbons or bedizenments, and the men no buckles to their shoes.
There was no inn in the village, and no poor-rate, and if the folk did not ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... silver lace, buckles in their shoes, black silk bags on their backs, and I
don't know what insane emblems of servility and absurd bedizenments of folly. ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"... and chalked foils, as well as all the old lumber of terms, quinte, sixte,
octave, and so on, are but the bedizenments which obscure his goddess. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"The room, with its polished floor strewn with mats and various “bedizenments from
furrin parts” (as Joe afterwards related), its books, pictures, ..."
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