Sentence examples for of a corsage from inspiring English sources

Second, its flirtatious bouquet of berries, tea roses and candy has the charm of a corsage pinned on the gown.

Gray was also a dominant color for fall on the runway, often with a dash of sapphire or violet, which was the Edwardians' signature, in the form of a corsage of fresh violets at the collar.

Generally, 4 to 6 loops will do for a corsage.

The guys usually give her mother a box of chocolates and get a corsage or bunch of flowers for their date.

Permitted for a minute to take refuge from all the frantic scrambling for his brother's — for everyone's — survival; to freeze for a moment his awareness of the emblem of despair pinned like a corsage beside his brother's heart.

When we were introduced in her showroom, last January, she was wearing a pair of trousers most easily described as a hybrid of a dhoti and a jodhpur, with a trim cardigan and a corsage of safety pins.

Only, yesterday, we observed a throbbing old express truck wearing a corsage of lilacs.

A corsage of blue roses and baby's breath was added a few hours before the prom.

Whether he is fussing over a corsage of edible wildflowers or tinting a baguette with squid ink to fashion a copy of a razor clam, Mr. Lightner is opening our eyes again to how busy nature has been.

It was written in the wake of Satie's split with Suzanne Valadon, a beautiful French painter who wore on her blouse a corsage of carrots and kept a pet goat in her studio.

Surrounded by toast points and crowned with a "corsage" of baby red-tipped lettuce and mesclun, tuna and salmon tartare arrived -- a beauty of two dainty cylinders, the fish layered with stripes of sour cream and black and red caviar.