The room was bedizened with flowers, in dishes, tins, and gallon jars, so that it seemed some way an alien thing, like a prune horse.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
He held a short staff in his hand, with which, from time to time, he struck the bedizened poles, one by one, and lowering it as he struck.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
But though they carried the large war-shield instead of the little ornamental shield usually employed on pacific journeyings, and were fully armed with assegai and knobkerrie, and here and there a battle-axe, their persons were bedizened by no martial gear-being, in fact, devoid of little other adornment than the mutya.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford