Synonyms

dizen

American

[dahy-zuhn, diz-uhn] / ˈdaɪ zən, ˈdɪz ən /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.

dizen British

/ ˈdaɪzən /

verb

an archaic word for bedizen

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Other Word Forms

dizenment noun

Etymology

Origin of dizen

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

Example Sentences

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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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Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down.

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