An aigret in her hair twinkled knowingly above her coarse, painted face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

"Lads, that Seminole was carryin 'around on him over five hundred dollars' worth of white and pink aigret plumes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

On either side of the table sat his son and daughter, the latter handsomer than Faraday had ever seen her, her heavy dress of ivory-tinted silk no whiter than her neck, a diamond aigret trembling like spray in her hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

However, the man who took things in hand was Azeemoolah Khan, a tall, handsome, light-skinned exquisite in a cloth-of-gold coat and with a jewelled aigret in his turban, who stepped smiling across the carpet with his hand out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

Imam Shah was standing forward, addressing the screen, with the old ris-Naldar-major a pace behind; the golden standard lay before the throne on which little Dalip sat in lonely state, the tiny figure brave in crimson, and with the Koh-i-Noor ablaze in his aigret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

Masses of wavy dark hair were drawn loosely back from a brow of dazzling whiteness into a cluster of soft curls on top of the head, where it seemed to be caught by a jeweled aigret, which yet permitted tiny ringlets to escape about the temples and the nape of the snowy neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

The Marquise de Gallifet was lovely in light-green tulle, with an aigret of diamonds in her blond hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference

And for a dress cut deckolett and an aigret in her hair, she would have swapped a halo and a set of wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

And she had them -- not that the aigret incident is important; but it may serve to place the Greggs in their respective niches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheerful—By Request] Reference

After inducting him into a pair of white leggings and bronze shoes, Mesrour clapped upon his head a large white turban ornamented with a black aigret.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton] Reference

Grand Porte were set out on a table; they consisted of an aigret of diamonds, and a costly box set with gems and adorned with the monogram of the Sultan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Court of the Empress Josephine] Reference

"Mrs. Ormonde and Miss Liddell!" shouted the waiters from landing to door, and the next moment Lady Barrington, a large woman in black velvet and a fierce white cap in which glittered an aigret of diamonds, was welcoming them with much cordiality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crooked Path A Novel] Reference

An aigret jabbed viciously at the tall shop-girl's eye, and Miss Rolls said hastily: "What Lady in the Moon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference

To the first I will give my diamond bracelet, to the second my collar of emeralds, to the third my aigret of rubies, to the fourth my girdle of topazes, and to the rest each a part of my dress, even down to my slippers.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Caliph Vathek] Reference

I confess I was looking forward to my Lion Queen’s arrival, and she came in style, with an entourage of warriors and servants, sashaying along under a great brolly borne by minions, her imposing bulk magnificent in silks of every colour, festooned with jewellery, a turban with an aigret swathing her braids, and bearing a silver-mounted sceptre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

To the first I will give my diamond bracelet, to the second my collar of emeralds, to the third my aigret of rubies, to the fourth my girdle of topazes, and to the rest each a part of my dress, even down to my slippers. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Caliph Vathek] Reference

The aigret of one princess-feather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

6. (a) Know what an aigret is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

I laughed to myself over Miss Lavinia's letter; she is always so deliciously in earnest and so perturbed over any change in the social ways of her dearly beloved New York, that I'm wondering how she finds it, on her return after two years or more abroad (she was becoming agitated before she left), and whether she will ask me down for another of those quaint little visits, where she so faithfully tours me through the shops and a few select teas, when, to wind it up, Evan buys opera box seats so that she may have the satisfaction of having her hair dressed, wearing her point lace bertha and aigret, and showing us who is who, and the remainder who are not.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Whirlpool] Reference