English
Etymology
be-|Be- + dight.
Pronunciation
IPA /bɪ'd�ɪt/
Verb
bedight
- archaic to equip or bedeck
#:*1922: Who comes through Michan�s land, bedight in sable armour? O�Bloom, the son of Rory: it is he. (Joyce, Ulysses)
#:*1843: In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered -- flushed, but smiling proudly -- with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top. (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas )
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