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bedizenry

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /bɪˈdaɪzənɹɪ/
  • /bɪˈdɪzənɹɪ/

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noun

Meaning 1

Showy or gaudy decorations or finery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1847, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Virginia, Charleston: W.R. Babcock, “Fairfax,” p. 259, 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From bedizen + -ry.