dizen

[dahy-zuhn, diz-uhn]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

1. to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.

dizen

/ ˈdaɪzən /

verb

1. an archaic word for bedizen

Other Word Forms

• dizenment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dizen¹

1520–30; dis- bunch of flax on a distaff + -en ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of dizen¹

C16: from Middle Dutch dīsen to dress a distaff with flax; see _distaff

Example Sentences

O man," said he to Robin, "I wad pay ye half a dizen bottles o' wine wi' as great cheerfu'ness as I raise this glass to my lips.

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Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?

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To-morrow, when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival, The pure shall see by their own will, Which overflowing Love shall fill, 'T is not within the force of fate The fate-conjoined to separate.

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What is the worth o' anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.

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Wholly, in their best apparel, brave men, and beautifully dizened women, most of whom have lovers there; swearing, by the eternal Heavens and this green-growing all-nutritive Earth, that France is free!

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Related Words

• attire 
• bundle up 
• cloak 
• disguise 
• do up 
• drape 
• dress 
• dress up 
• equip 
• fit 
• swaddle 
• swathe