bedizenry
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[edit]bedizenry (uncountable)
- Showy or gaudy decorations or finery.
- 1847, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Virginia, Charleston: W.R. Babcock, “Fairfax,” p. 259,[1]
- Money made in the stocks can purchase the bedizenry of our city drawing-rooms; but these elevating associations, which no gold can buy, no popular favor win, which can only be inherited, these are the heir-looms, the traditionary titles and pensions, inalienable, not conferred, which a republic allows to the descendants of her great servants.
- 1900, Louise Jordan Miln, chapter 25, in Wooings and Weddings in Many Climes[2], Chicago & New York: Herbert & Stone, page 345:
- A Sikh will travel any distance to join a barat, walking briskly through the glittering scorch of the indescribable Punjaubi sunshine, clad in all the weight and bedizenry of his best raiment […]
- 1989, Jack Vance, chapter 6, in Madouc[3], Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, page 130:
- “I have heard that in Rome and Ravenna the churches are crammed so full with gold ornaments and jeweled gewgaws that they lack space for aught else. Be assured that never a penny from the Royal Exchequer of Lyonesse will be spent on such bedizenry.”
- 1847, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Virginia, Charleston: W.R. Babcock, “Fairfax,” p. 259,[1]