Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
DIZEN
bedizen, dizen
(verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
dizen (third-person singular simple present dizens, present participle dizening, simple past and past participle dizened)
(transitive) To dress with flax for spinning.
(transitive) To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
Source: Wiktionary
Diz"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dizened; p. pr. & vb. n. Dizening.] Etym: [Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. Distaff.]
1. To dress; to attire. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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