dress

• Those festoons want spirit and grace; you must recommence them, or the dress will be a failure, I warn you! —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
• This dress was a special favorite of her husband's; he used to liken her to a rosebud in it, and said that no color more truly matched the soft tender bloom of her young face Hilda put on the rose silk now, arranged her dark hair picturesquely, and going downstairs to the little drawing room, occupied herself for an hour or more in giving it some of those delicate touches which make the difference between the mistress of the house being at home and away It was a very warm evening for the time of year, but Hilda had a fire lit in the grate. —  A Young Mutineer
• This character and their dress are accounted for by their long subjection to tyranny. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• And yet his dress was a marvel of adaptation to the part he happened to be playing. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• A few pink roses fastened in her dress were the only color about her, except the roses in her cheeks. —  Bred In The Bone 1908

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