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regalia

[ri-gay-lee-uh, -gayl-yuh] / rɪˈgeɪ li ə, -ˈgeɪl jə /
NOUN
finery
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“I went just like everyone. At 7 a.m. I showed up, wore my regalia, sat down and just soaked in the sun for a couple hours,” he said of the experience last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The State Opening of Parliament is the most British of occasions - and today it had the most British of ingredients: royals, regalia and rain.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

When the Allies occupied defeated Germany, they systematically removed the symbols and regalia of Nazi rule, as at the Nazi Party’s rallying grounds at Nuremberg.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

A 2021 photograph by Maree Clarke is an exception; family members in traditional regalia are seated by a reed canoe, with the skyline of Melbourne in the background, powerfully fusing past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

He disdained full regalia, except on ceremonial occasions, and dressed instead in impeccable coats and breeches, with tall black riding boots and a dueling blade at his side.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

I put another hundred in a couple of cases of Bordeaux, two quarts of cognac, two hundred Havana regalias with gold bands, and a camp stove and stools and folding cots.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

I would offer him one of those choice regalias with which my case is well provided.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne

She’s got up all in black, not exactly a mournin’ costume, but one of these real broadcloth regalias, plain but classy.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

I brought him a pony of brandy and his black coffee, and set the box of Havana regalias on the table.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

Then a further line of big-handed, white-gloved men in beavers and regalias; for he had been also a Freemason and an Odd-fellow.

From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable




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