bedizening

English

Verb

bedizening

1. present participle of bedizen

Noun

bedizening (plural bedizenings)

1. The act of adorning gaudily.
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

     The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutions, arrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little.