Sentence examples for simple gown from inspiring English sources

Her veil, folded flat across her forehead, fell in a "waterfall" cascade to frame her face, and only a true-lovers' knot of orange blossom on the left side ornamented the simple gown.

She didn't give a damn about social opinion, and she was rewarded with the stunningly modern-looking "Arrangement in Black: Lady Meux" (in a starkly simple gown, with a huge white fur cape and icy diamonds) and the outrageous "Harmony in Pink and Grey" (voluptuously seductive in a dress that seems corseted from the outside).

On formal occasions, lower officials may wear the kuan yi, a simple gown with patches of embroidery on both the front and back.

She walked on the empty stage, a slim figure, a simple gown draping it, and then the piano played a simple descending figure, and she moaned and growled "only love can make it rain like when the beach is kissed by the sea.

In occupied Paris, for instance, simple gowns were in favor.

In the end, the producers settled on long cloaks and simple gowns with sweeping sleeves from about A.D. 1000.

Roman Britons in simple gowns bond with the likes of Earl Hindman's Belarius, who might have stepped out of a John Huston movie complete with Texan growl, leathers and spurs: an outfit that gives his boast that his life is "prouder than rustlin' " (which actually means gliding about the court in silks) a mischievously spurious frisson.

By the 1770s a reaction to this excess was beginning in England, where simpler gowns with a framework petticoat were worn, and the fullness of the skirt was drawn to the back.

"It's lovely," a guest asked about her simple black gown.

Alice helped Anna Marie into the simple, elegant gown, which she had bought in Queens.

At the centre of it all is Hegarty, draped in a simple white gown, mostly standing still.