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bedizenry

/bɪˈdaɪzənɹɪ/

bedizenry noun: showy or gaudy decorations or finery.

Noun

bedizenry (uncountable)

  1. Showy or gaudy decorations or finery.
    • 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...1847, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Virginia, Charleston: W.R. Babcock, “Fairfax,” p. 259
    • 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 […]1900, Louise Jordan Miln, chapter 25, in Wooings and Weddings in Many Climes, Chicago & New York: Herbert & Stone, page 345

Origin of bedizenry

From bedizen + -ry.

Questions about bedizenry

What does bedizenry mean?
Bedizenry means showy or gaudy decorations or finery.
What part of speech is bedizenry?
Bedizenry is a noun.
How do you pronounce bedizenry?
Bedizenry is pronounced /bɪˈdaɪzənɹɪ/.

Words near bedizenry in the dictionary

  1. bedizened
  2. bedizening
  3. bedizenings
  4. bedizenment
  5. bedizenments
  6. bedizenry
  7. bedizens
  8. bedizzen
  9. bedizzened
  10. bedizzening
  11. bedizzens

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