Hannah was dressed in a lead-courlered habbit, open, with a lylack lutestring scirt. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782] Reference
It was a blue lutestring habit, taffety apron and handkerchief, with the most butiful little hat on the side of her head I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782] Reference
Accordingly, it is white lutestring, covered and full-trimmed with white crape, festooned with lilac ribbon and mock point-lace, over a hoop of enormous size. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
This was the first day I changed my mourning; -- a white lutestring, with the fine suit of rough garnets your Ladyship gave me, was my dress on the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
I gave them what, by courtesy, may be called my blessing, and my suit of blue lutestring to Mrs Bride, and she threw herself at my feet, and I actually came near shedding a tear to see her overflowing gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Whereat the Duke, sly laughing, plucked lutestring. From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
In lutestring striped like the strings o 'a fiddle. From Wordnik.com. [Nets to Catch the Wind] Reference
Squeaks like a high-stretched lutestring, and replies. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Man] Reference
Squeaks like a high-stretch'd lutestring, and replies. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
I had a white dress and a bonnet trimmed with lutestring ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Flower of the Dusk] Reference
She was already dressed, in a black lutestring, her hair flat and natural. From Wordnik.com. [The Conqueror] Reference
Pray, if it is not impertinent, what might you give a yard for this lutestring?. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
My new lace handkerchief was down upon the seat, lest Dolly soil her bright pink lutestring. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference
There's the black lutestring petticoat Sylvy fetched me two years ago; but there ain't any gown to it. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
She had come down in the pink lutestring, smiling but pale; and traces of tears in her eyes, I thought. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference
"No," replied the other; "you did not hear her tell about the green lutestring bed, and the young lady.". From Wordnik.com. [The Unexpected Legacy] Reference
She is to be married in a delicate white sattin, and has a monstrous pretty brocaded lutestring for the second day. From Wordnik.com. [The Contrast] Reference
In its original state, it was lined with a rose-coloured lutestring, with a flounce of the same about a quarter deep. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Her features were finely moulded, and her shoulders, slipping out from azure lutestring, were like smooth handfuls of meringue. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference
And, in a few moments, she held in her hand a written scroll that he let down to her by a lutestring weighted with a scrap of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Her white satin petticoat showed its rich lustre under a lutestring gown of palest rose brocaded with silver sprigs and looped with silver ribbon and pink satin roses. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
She scoured young madam's lutestring, and made it up in the latest and most elegant fashion of nightgowns, with fringes and buttons, such as our own little girls could match. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
Charles Townshend, who succeeded Holland as paymaster, called it "a lutestring ministry, fit only for summer wear"; Pitt was expected to supply one of more durable material before the winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of Gloucester. From Wordnik.com. [The Tailor of Gloucester] Reference
"Well, Miss, the lutestring has been spirited away, and no less. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
"cottage straw" was trimmed with white lutestring, crossed over the crown. From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
"I had," she says, "a most stiff and lustrous petticoat of daffodil-colored lutestring, with flowered gown and sleeves lined with crimson. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
“The fishery of this part of the river belongs to me; and my fisherman's little boat (where I have a green lutestring awning) serves me for a barge. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Mary Wortley Montague]
"It is," said he, "mere lutestring; pretty summer wear. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
"Well, Cary, I have brought you all the things in your minute, save your purple lutestring scarf, which I could not find. From Wordnik.com. [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference
Anastatia Orry can tell the price of lutestring a yard because Winslow Orry failed in that business, but she knows as much of diamonds as an elephant of good manners. ". From Wordnik.com. [Trumps] Reference
To tremble like a lutestring, ere the note. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
And held your trailing lutestring up yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
On the phrase "to speak in lutestring," 188. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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