gown
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She wears a pearl-trimmed French hood; a dark, square-necked gown with white lace, gold and pearl trim; a pearl necklace; and, with one exception, a pearl necklace with the pendant initials “AB” or “B.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
I even treasured that weekend where we all kept refreshing our phones to see if Swift would drop pictures of her Dior gown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
She was invited there as a guest and says she caught the eye of Hollywood megastar Zendaya, thanks to her custom look: a striking gold gown complete with a hood.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Lhuillier posted some clips from the Vogue fitting on social media and wrote that designing Roberts’ gown was about capturing a feeling of timeless romance through a modern lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
She also turned Cinderella's raggedy dress into a beautiful ball gown, a pumpkin into a coach, and mice into coach drivers.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
The archaeologists built sterile, temporary structures with temperature and humidity controls, and lowered experts clad in head-to-toe medical gowns into the pits atop bedlike platforms so as to minimize contact with the artifacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The country entered the pandemic with its stockpile of masks, gowns and gloves in a "perilous state" and was "simply not ready to compete" in the global race to secure new supplies, Hallett said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
At a makeshift morgue in the quake-hit Venezuelan port of La Guaira, forensic experts in blue gowns and caps picked their way through dozens of bodies laid out in bags under the sun.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
She explained, “Not that she wore the gowns and stuff like that, but she fed the animals, she fed the birds, she invited them onto her porch, into her home, onto her hand.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
In gowns, we’re wives with squalling goblin children.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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