aigrette

Example Sentences

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He did not see the graceful, white rice-birds or the regal aigrets flitting about among the trees; he saw only the vast, restless ocean.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello

The head-dresses, a foot above the head with aigrets and feathers and an excess of powder, seemed to me quite astonishing.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

By Thursday evening she was teasing Papa Gregg for a spray of white aigrets, such as those same languorous ladies wore in feathery mists atop their hats.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

“My word!” murmured the mystified dignitary, turning to his lady, who stood, the picture of mute anger, at his side, the very aigrets on her ginger-colored hair trembling in her anger.

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson

The individual blossoms have much the look of alert little blue violets wearing long, elegant lilac aigrets.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth