13Jul 08
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #35
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
35.) Dizen
-transitive verb
a.) To deck out in fine clothes or ornaments.*
[Origin: possibly from the Middle Dutch disen meaning "to prepare a distaff with flax for spinning," or from Middle Low German dise, disene or "bunch of flax."]
*Many simply dress. Faeries dizen.