aigrette

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Other intriguing pieces included Chaumet’s narrow diamond tiara with a central opal, with an upstanding aigrette of white feathers rising from sapphire branches.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2012

Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept into each new party crowned with ostrich feathers, aigrette plumes, flowers and veiling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who does not know his empurpled neck so elegantly bridled, his aigrette of four-and-twenty battledore-feathers, his pencilled body-clothing, and, above all, his grand erectile train with its rows of eyelets?

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry