aigrette

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Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret.

From Time Magazine Archive

What an aigret is, how obtained, and from what bird.

From How Girls Can Help Their Country by Low, Juliette Gordon

The panes were sweated with the dawn; Yet through their dimness, shriveled drawn, The aigret of one princess-feather, One monk's-hood tuft with oilets wan, I glimpsed, dead in the slaying weather.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

For want of a more proper term to denominate the ornament serkhooj, the word aigret is here used.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

The Marquise de Gallifet was lovely in light-green tulle, with an aigret of diamonds in her blond hair.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)