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  • Besides, I don't want my perfume, my lipstick, and my gold-lace evening suit to be only as good as my imagination.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • Besides, I don't want my perfume, my lipstick, and my gold-lace evening suit to be only as good as my imagination.

    Bespoke Perfumes? Perfume in the Glossies March 2008. Marina Geigert 2008

  • Captain Crowe had taken off a blue suit of clothes strongly guarded with bars of broad gold-lace, in order to honour the nuptials of his friend.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • Only when I came upon this coast as a very little boy, and without knowing anything about it, they say that I had very wonderful buttons of gold upon a linen dress, adorned with gold-lace, which I used to wear on Sundays.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Perhaps in Richmond or some state capitol the gold-lace exponents did appear in tasteful and well-tailored gray with the proper insignia of rank.

    Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

  • But the cap'n also knows as how you can't be too big a gold-lace officer when you're behind the enemy lines with men on the run.

    Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

  • Our poor half-genius vibrates miserably between truth and the dinner-pot, comes back from his apocalypse, and cries for admiration, gold-lace, hair-powder, and wine.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • There, too, was the bridegroom, dressed in a fine purple coat, and gold-lace waistcoat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow him to put on.

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

  • There, too, was the bridegroom, dressed in a fine purple coat and gold-lace waistcoat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow him to put on.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • There was a splendid table-service, and a noble array of footmen, some of them in plain clothes, and others wearing the town-livery, richly decorated with gold-lace, and themselves excellent specimens of the blooming young-manhood of Britain.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

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