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Definition of Bedizens
1. bedizen [v] - See also: bedizen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedizens
Literary usage of Bedizens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... what would Mr. Arnold think of the exchange ? epigrams as those in which
Lamartine bedizens his most commonplace statements—as the phrase, for instance, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"An amulet is not identical with a fetish,—one of the natural oddities with which
the savage bedizens himself, or stuffs his medicine-bag, as the Neapolitan ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"... because the inventor of the worship of Reason was given over to a strong
delusion to believe the lie which his English apologist thus bedizens, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"Russia is like a sturdy boor who has become a millionaire by gold-digging, who
bedizens his outward man with pins, and chains,' and rings, ..."
5. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"The Romans, and much more the Greeks, despised the coarse, material pomp which
bedizens itself with massive adornments in precious metals but of common ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"Sometimes a squalid coquette of a girl bedizens her waist with a couple of dahlias,
as the old special pleader said, " to give colour. ..."
7. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1887)
"“The more she bedizens herself, the more ridiculous she grows. But a beautiful
woman can dress in cloth of gold and diamonds, and the richer her clothes, ..."
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