finery
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The focal point of Ashenda festival, which traditionally draws thousands of young women dressed in their finery, was to be a mass gathering at a stadium in Mekelle on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
There should be no single, all-powerful character around which a democracy revolves, so it is considered unseemly to lavish excessive finery on the head of state.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
With centuries of French finery to draw on, the Palais Galliera, the city’s fashion museum, regularly mounts temporary exhibitions to showcase its fragile collection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
The clothes and scents and jewelry were lovely and special, but I was the same girl underneath all this finery.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
While most festivalgoers don the likes of velvet, bodices, feathered caps and other fineries, Matthews and his friends coordinated peasant-inspired costumes in an effort to represent the everyman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
The burial site, and particularly the crown and other fineries interred with the woman, hinted at a premodern European culture in which women might have held considerable power.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
No one thought to escort her off stage, strip her of her fineries, and save us all this torture?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2015
Beyond the constant dialectic between streetwear and ladylike fineries - the sweatshirts and pencil skirts were worn together - the collection was also playing with opacity and transparency.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2011
Her luggage was no doubt following in the cart: box upon box of fineries; different dresses for every day in the week; jewel-cases full of glittering gems!
From The Daughters of a Genius by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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