Bedizen (verb)
bed-iz-uhn
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
First recorded in 1655–65 and formed from the verb dizen, “to deck with clothes or finery.”
Dizen was originally a weaving term that refers to a bunch of wool fiber on a distaff, a spinning wheel attachment.
Example sentences
“The attendees were asked to bedizen themselves for the midnight release of the new fantasy film.”
Tripartite (adj) triy-part-iyt Divided into or consisting of three parts. Agreed by three parties. 1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- +…
