It was bridled and plumed and caparisoned with purple and gold garniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
"Tell me," she said, "tell me in good faith where this garniture was found.". From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Doth the garniture of his spirit conform to the polished and attractive surface?. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
These, however, may be enlivened with condimental garniture of broken and combined colors. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Water cress has a pleasant and highly pungent flavor that makes it valuable as a salad or garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference
Turn, and in each loop work 2 s.c., 4 d.c., 2 s.c. Fasten off, and sew on the deep fringe garniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc.] Reference
And aside from the lime-in-one's-Corona affectation, beer is also free from the garniture imperative. From Wordnik.com. [Consider the Trimmings] Reference
His paned hose were of black velvet, lined with purple silk, which garniture appeared at the slashes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
For example, one reads in every current fashion sheet that beads are in vogue as garniture for dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
Lo! all is ready and they are bringing at thy bidding from the spoils of Troy garniture to put upon the dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Trojan Women] Reference
In my mind men, like churches and books, and women too, should be brave, not mean, in their outward garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Stripped of all its fine garniture of rhetoric, their proposition simply amounts to this: The sudden addition of. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
But he now adds, all the host of them, by which he signifies that the world was furnished with all its garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Thou removest this obstacle too; I then will sail with thee and help stow the funeral garniture in the same ship. From Wordnik.com. [Helen] Reference
Here nature begins to assume a ruder aspect; and the silken bands of love gives way to the rustic garniture of war. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Certain instructions had been given as to her dress, and the garniture of her hair, and the disposal of her ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
This dish may be made more attractive in appearance if a few of the finest berries are saved and used as a garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference
The Septuagint gives the word kosmos, and the Vulgate, ornatus; the meaning of both words is "ornaments," or garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Madeline affected all manner of rich and quaint devices in the garniture of her room, her person, and her feminine belongings. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
This point is in the most curious way studded with windmills, and from this its garniture has received its name in our geography. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He knows the ways of thinking of them all, and he knows the tricks of speech of all, and the outer garniture and daily habitudes of all. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
In spite, then, of that expressed trust in Providence which is part of the garniture of English respectability, a great fear fell on the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
The trimming must accentuate the distinctive type of the gown or hat instead of blotting out the lines by an overabundance of garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
He was always well dressed, and yet always so dressed as to seem to show that his outside garniture had not been matter of trouble to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
A sumptuous garniture, we learn, was commissioned by Charles V to make his son Philip look more plausible as a candidate for emperor in 1550. From Wordnik.com. [Armor as Wearable Sculpture] Reference
She felt that it was very good that something of the price had come to her thus in the shape of land, and beeves, and wide, heavy outside garniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
The senhoras were all dressed after the French fashion: corset, fichu, garniture, all was proper, and even elegant, and there was a great display of jewels. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
All phenomena are negative, and are only the external garniture of the world of man, the spirit, the child of the Eternal, of the father and mother Creators of him. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
The hapless bride will take, ay, take the golden crown that is to be her ruin; with her own hand will she lift and place upon her golden locks the garniture of death. From Wordnik.com. [Medea] Reference
In the case of the large cake, sprinkle powdered sugar over the top and then on this arrange a number of the largest and finest of the berries, as Fig. 1 shows, as a garniture. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference
“The lubricity of women,” he observes, “is so great at Patan, the men are constrained to adopt certain garniture, in order to be safe against their amorous enterprises.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
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