单词 | bedizen |
释义 | bedizenv. 1. transitive. To dress out, especially in a vulgar or gaudy fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately disguisec1325 quaintisea1333 guisea1400 to dress up?a1513 deck?1521 garnisha1535 trim1594 gallant1614 sprug1622 dizena1625 to dress out1649 bedizen1661 rig1723 trim1756 bedress1821 gaudy1838 buck up1854 garb1868 clobber1887 mum1890 to do up1897 dude1899 toff1914 lair1941 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 112 These petty Ladies..are bedizned in sable sacks, or..in white sarcenet wallats. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Bedizen, to dress out: a low word. a1779 J. Langhorne Country Justice (R.) Ye cits, that sore bedizen Nature's face. 1825 W. Scott Talisman (1854) 267 You have bedizened me in green, a colour he detests. 2. transitive. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn cheaply or gaudily bedaub1581 plaster1585 daub1594 begaudy1640 betawder1682 tawder1716 bedizen1786 1786 H. Headley Parod. Gray's El. in Poems 29 The name bedizon'd by the pedant muse. 1806 Edinb. Rev. 8 268 The quotations..with which Mr. Lemaistre has thought fit to bedizzen his pages. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 130 Bedizened out into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1661 |
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