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dizen

[ dahy-zuhn, diz-uhn ]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
  1. to deck with clothes or finery; bedizen.


dizen

/ ˈ»å²¹Éª³úÉ™²Ô /

verb

  1. an archaic word for bedizen
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ»å¾±³ú±ð²Ô³¾±ð²Ô³Ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å¾±î€ƒz±ð²Ô·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dizen1

1520–30; dis- bunch of flax on a distaff + -en 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dizen1

C16: from Middle Dutch »åÄ«²õ±ð²Ô to dress a distaff with flax; see distaff
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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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