aigrette

• They put on their state robes in the hero's anti-chamber; and presented the aigrette, seated on cushions, after the oriental method. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I
• The aigrette, which is a sort of artificial plume, or feather, represents a hand with thirteen fingers, covered with diamonds; allusive to the thirteen ships taken and destroyed by the hero: and it's size is that of a child's hand, at the age of five or six years, when open. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I
• Following him with anxious eyes was Mrs. Parrott looking like an India famine sufferer décollet From the bottom of that mysterious wardrobe trunk, which resembled the widow's cruse in that it seemed to have no limitations, Mrs. Abe Tutts had resurrected an aigrette which sprouted from a knob of hair tightly twisted on the top of her head. —  The Lady Doc
• He was dressed in a pale turquoise silk coat, with dark blue and white and gold turban with diamond aigrette, and white trousers, patent leather shoes, and a long necklace of very large diamonds. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
• Two ropes of pearls hung down to his waist: a huge uncut emerald made a vivid incident of green upon his gilded chest: and the diamond aigrette, surmounting his turban of palest green muslin, flashed and quivered in the sunshine, like living fire. —  The Great Amulet

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