adazzle

American  

[uh-daz-uhl] / əˈdæz əl /

adjective

1. dazzling; glitteringly bright.

   a street adazzle with Christmas displays.

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Etymology

Origin of adazzle

First recorded in 1825–35; a- ¹ + dazzle

Example Sentences

Dressed in a jacket and “Destination Mars” T-shirt, his fingers adazzle with rings, Aldrin’s contorted face conveys how dicey the moment was.

From The Guardian

In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the banner-draped high altar to the flower-banked west door, the great Gothic nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras.

From Time Magazine Archive

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beatify is past change: Praise him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.

From Project Gutenberg