Sentence examples for sumptuous garments from inspiring English sources

We learn that it was the groom's responsibility to provide his wife-to-be with sumptuous garments and jewels, especially those she would wear in the procession from her family home to his.

Byzantine leaders shamelessly posed for mosaic portraits "bedecked in jewels, pearls and sumptuous garments," the historian Jeffrey Spier writes in the catalog for "Byzantium and the West: Jewelry in the First Millennium," a show that opens on Thursday at Les Enluminures gallery in Manhattan.

The letterings reinforce the duality between the earthly and heavenly, with St. Catherine's a reminder of ascetic piety while the figure herself is depicted in sumptuous garments and jewels.

At the height of the industry in the 1500s, the clacking of 6,000 wooden looms echoed throughout the Venetian lagoon as the city's Guild of Silk Weavers slowly wove velvet from thousands of silk threads to supply sumptuous patterned garments to the highest rung of Renaissance nobility.

Part of the sumptuous wardrobe of Britain's Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Africanceremonialnial garment of raffia and a paperlike men's suit designed by the artist James Rosenquist are on view in this show of more than 75 garments and accessories.

These sumptuous, intricate specimens, mostly from the Qing dynasty, include a nineteenth-century kesi-weave garment, decorated with elaborately embroidered gold dragons and the ancient symbols of imperial authority.

The interiors were sumptuous.

A sumptuous buffet followed.

Our room is sumptuous.

The setting is sumptuous.

Of sumptuous things.