~ bedizened ~
dressed up or decorated gaudily: a dress bedizened with resplendent military medals, Kindle dictionary
I'm in awe of Pat Conroy’s vocabulary. He uses words so well to paint (or shall I say bedizen) the scenes in his story. Bedizen has been around since the mid-17th century according to Dictionary.com.
Check out this example from the classic, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?
As I looked further into the word, I discovered "caparison" means nearly the same as bedizen. I was unfamiliar with this synonym
The definition for caparison is "rich and sumptuous clothing or equipment and also known as a decorative covering for a horse or for the tack or harness of a horse: trappings." If you are a horse person, you are probably using comparison in your vocabulary. Or is it an old-fashioned word and not used anymore?
So fellow Word Nerds, today we got a "twofer"--two new words (to me anyway) on one post.
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