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.”
Hajji (noun) hadj-ee A muslim who has gone on pilgrimage to Mecca. First recorded in 1600–10; from Arabic ḥajjī, equivalent to ḥajj “pilgrimage” + -ī a suffix indicating relationship or…
