bedizened
adjUK /bɪˈdaɪz(ə)nd/ · US /bɪˈdaɪzənd/
Etymology From bedizen + -ed.
1
Literary Dressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner; ostentatious.
- There was much whispering and plotting after she had gone in, a conference with some of the boys, and a handing over of bedizened pencils and chews of gum for value received.1923, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Trial by Fire”, in Emily of New Moon, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, page 84:
- She wore only the subtlest touch of make up and round her delicate throat only a single string of pearls. Among the hundred bedizened women she was a rarity.[1943], Marjorie Barnard, “Arrow of Mistletoe”, in The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: The Clarendon Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 12:
- Derived terms
- unbedizened