Friday, March 14, 2008

words

bedizen. citizen of bed. bed citizen.

but really.


bedizen \bih-DY-zuhn\, transitive verb:
To dress or adorn in gaudy manner.

as per
At 18, he attended a party "frizzled, powdered and curled, in radiant pink satin, with waistcoat bedizened with gems of pink paste and a mosaic of colored foils and a hat blazing with 5,000 metallic beads," according to Michael Battersberry in "Fashion, The Mirror of History."
-- Donna Larcen, "Details Details: Everything Old Is New Again", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 19, 1994

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