tout ensemble
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In the examples of continental costume, the tout ensemble is graceful, and especially the head-dress; while in England the elegant sleeve is accompanied with very short waists, and with the hideous, horned head-dresses then fashionable.
From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
The tout ensemble of this is an extraordinarily harmonious mixture of styles which compels unceasing admiration.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
By this means the idea of strength and support is not interfered with, and the tout ensemble is not destroyed.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
It was his towering, bald forehead, and something of command and savage energy in his lowering face, that redeemed the tout ensemble from an almost brutal vulgarity.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
And that disturbance of the heart's action which Eulenburg and Guttmann consider an essential element is found in Cases 1, 2, 4 and 5; so that the tout ensemble presented by Case 4 is corroborated.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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