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Dizen

//ˈdɪzən// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To dress with flax for spinning. transitive
  2. 2
    dress up garishly and tastelessly wordnet
  3. 3
    To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen. transitive

    "Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout."

  4. 4
    To dress showily; adorn; dress out. UK, dialectal, transitive

    "I tell you, these Englishwomen have either no life at all in them, or they're nothing but animal life. 'Gad, how they dizen themselves! They've no other use for their fingers. The wealth of this country's frightful!'"

Etymology

From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Diezene (“bundle of flax, distaff”), Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”).

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