Word of the Day – Bedizen

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.”