aigrette

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Other intriguing pieces included Chaumet’s narrow diamond tiara with a central opal, with an upstanding aigrette of white feathers rising from sapphire branches.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2012

Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept into each new party crowned with ostrich feathers, aigrette plumes, flowers and veiling.

From Time Magazine Archive

From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wore my black voile and a little black and jet toque in which I put a white aigrette, and white gloves, so as not to be too black.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King