Question

bedizened ‘Why don't you sit down, Louisa Ivanovna,‘ [the clerk] said in passing to the bedizened reddish-purple lady.…quietly, with a silken rustling, [she] lowered herself onto the chair. Her light-blue dress with white lace trimming expanded around the chair like a balloon and filled almost half the office. There was a reek of perfume.

Accepted Answer

adj. Dressed up or decorated gaudily. Crime and Punishment, trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky, II.i, p. 96

Word	bedizened
Definition	adj. Dressed up or decorated gaudily.
Sentence	‘Why don't you sit down, Louisa Ivanovna,‘ [the clerk] said in passing to the bedizened reddish-purple lady.…quietly, with a silken rustling, [she] lowered herself onto the chair. Her light-blue dress with white lace trimming expanded around the chair like a balloon and filled almost half the office. There was a reek of perfume.
Source	Crime and Punishment, trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky, II.i, p. 96

Bedizened Adj Dressed Decorated Gaudily Sit Louisa Ivanovna