Everyone you encounter, artist or patron, is like the Han emperor Huandi, who, a fifth-century chronicle tells us, was crazy for "foreign dress, foreign hangings, foreign beds, foreign chairs, foreign food, foreign harps, foreign flutes, foreign dance".
By one count by the American military, nearly 70 militants, including fighters in foreign dress, were killed Thursday in a raid on a militants' training camp northwest of Baghdad, toward the Syrian border.
The prophet Zephaniah (7th century bce) attests to heavy foreign influence on the mores of Jerusalem merchants who adopted foreign dress, cynics who lost faith in the power of YHWH to do anything, and people who worshipped the pagan host of heaven on their roofs (see also Zephaniah, Book of).
THE morning after the United Arab Emirates turned 38, the streets were deserted but for the foreign workers dressed in orange coveralls.
I believe that when [MPs] think of Isis they think of a foreign fighter, dressed in black, holding before him a terrified offering dressed in orange – a kind of spectre or ghost, screaming at us out of cyberspace.
Adam Holloway, Conservative MP for Gravesham I believe that when [MPs] think of Isis they think of a foreign fighter, dressed in black, holding before him a terrified offering dressed in orange – a kind of spectre or ghost, screaming at us out of cyberspace.
It feels more quiet than it should be - besides the odd foreign man dressed to tackle the ski slopes.
Another was the Cadet Corps, established in 1732 to train young noblemen in the finer points of foreign etiquette, dress, arts and language to prepare them for diplomatic and military service.
"Loti's penchant for dressing in foreign costume, whether in Turkey, in Morocco or at the elaborate soirées he held in Rochefort, came partly from his desire to slip into a world other than his own," wrote Arthur Clark in an essay on Loti and the Orient.
I know of a former foreign secretary who enjoys dressing up in women's clothing and having his bottom smacked.
