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dizen

[ dahy-zuhn, diz-uhn ]

verb (used with object)

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


dizen

/ ˈ岹ɪə /

verb

  1. an archaic word for bedizen
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ徱ԳԳ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • 徱z·Գ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dizen1

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

Origin of dizen1

C16: from Middle Dutch ī 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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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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