overgown

With the assistance of my ladies, I remove my damask overgown.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

With the assistance of my ladies, I remove my damask overgown.

Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

True story: I had to do an emergency alteration overnight of a light blue overdress so that it could change from a 17th Century overgown to an 18th Century polonaise.

Yet more Fabric Week - A Dress A Day 2006

It was in the height of fashion, children and adults wearing the same style-a rich light green brocade overgown with a low, square bodice edged in elegant, dark green embroidery.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

They left the workroom arm-in-arm, and encountered Marina fresh from a hot bath, cheeks glowing, hair damp, enveloped in one of the warm, weighty winter gowns that Margherita had made for her, a caftan of soft olive wool that Margherita had shamelessly copied from a Worth original, with a sleeveless overgown of the same fabric, lined in cream-colored linen, and embroidered with twining forest-green kelp and blue-green fish with fantastically trailing fins.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

She was wearing the newest kind of ruff, a little bigger than its predecessors and edged with lace, and her rose-colored overgown, embroidered with golden flowers, adorned with high shoulder puffs, and worn over a pale blue kirtle and undersleeves also sewn with golden flowers, could have appeared at any court function.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

She was wearing the newest kind of ruff, a little bigger than its predecessors and edged with lace, and her rose-colored overgown, embroidered with golden flowers, adorned with high shoulder puffs, and worn over a pale blue kirtle and undersleeves also sewn with golden flowers, could have appeared at any court function.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

I was as usual wearing a kirtle and an open overgown and like all my over-gowns, this one had a capacious pocket stitched inside it.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

She was wearing the newest kind of ruff, a little bigger than its predecessors and edged with lace, and her rose-colored overgown, embroidered with golden flowers, adorned with high shoulder puffs, and worn over a pale blue kirtle and undersleeves also sewn with golden flowers, could have appeared at any court function.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000

She was wearing the newest kind of ruff, a little bigger than its predecessors and edged with lace, and her rose-colored overgown, embroidered with golden flowers, adorned with high shoulder puffs, and worn over a pale blue kirtle and undersleeves also sewn with golden flowers, could have appeared at any court function.

To Ruin a Queen FIONA BUCKLEY 2000