"Your brown moire-antique --" "Yes, and look like a Quaker."— The Book of Humorous Verse
I was wearing a white wig with a large black lace cap, and a gown of black moire-antique trimmed with flounces and hanging sleeves of an abominable material known as black Chantilly lace.— The Days Before Yesterday
She has a pleasing dark face, wore a black velvet head-dress and white carnelian ear-rings, a black moire-antique silk made high in the neck, with white lace falling sleeves and white gloves.— Music and Some Highly Musical People
Her stout, rich black _moire-antique_ gown rustled severely; the yellow ostrich feather in her bonnet waved majestically.— A Fair Barbarian
She was a woman who thought that the perfection of feminine costume was a moire-antique dress and a conspicuous gold chain.— Birds of Prey
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