116 adjectives to describe attired

Madame de Chevreuse rode with one attendant from Paris to Madrid, fleeing from Richelieu, remaining day and night on her horse, attracting perilous admiration by the womanly loveliness which no male attire could obscure.

FUNERAL OF ABENAMAR The Moors of haughty Gelves have changed their gay attire.

Sometimes I was induced, through the Brahmin, to criticise their taste and skill, having been always an admirer of simplicity in female attire.

The costly attire of the lady-babe,the homely garb of the cottage-infant,the affecting address of the fond mother to her own offspring;then the charming équivoque in the change of the children: it all looked so dramatic:it was a play ready made to my hands.

Perhaps a beautiful woman is never so winningly lovely as when, in her neat morning attire, she seems fresh and sweet as the new-born day.

The boarders agreed; and when two young ladies in the most fashionable and costly attire visited him in succession in a semi-stealthy manner, their suspicions, as they believed, were confirmed.

He had not addressed her with the name his brother had given her since that last day in the garden; she was gravely Prudence to him, in her plain attire, her smooth hair and little unworldly ways, almost a veritable Puritan maiden.

" She went into the palace in her coarse attire and worked with the servants, sweeping the rooms and cleaning the furniture.

The whole railway line was guarded by patrols, many of whom were in civilian attire.

They are as indispensable as the Ballad Singer; and in their picturesque attire as ornamental as the Signs of old London.

What means this gorgeous glittering head-attire?

It was characteristic of the mountain girl, and of her people, that she had not on first meeting stared, village fashion, at his brave attire; and she seemed now concerned only with the man himself.

Recognition and pleasure shot into his countenance, and in a moment his arms were interlocked with those of a swarthy mariner, who wore the loose attire and Phrygian cap of men of his calling.

The third person, who went by the name of Philip Grant, had a powerful frame, though somewhat bent, and a haughty deportment and look, greatly at variance with his miserable attire and haggard looks.

Next morning, early, Virginius entered the Forum, leading his daughter by the hand, both clad in mean attire.

And the barrels of clothing solved another problem; for no longer did their contents consist solely of articles of feminine attire.

Men, women and children poured from the houses in scant attire, all unnerved and fearful, crying for an explanation of the explosion.

The citizens adopted sober attire; a spirit as of England under the Puritans prevailed; and Savonarola's eloquence so far carried away not only the populace but many persons of genius that a bonfire was lighted in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria in which costly dresses, jewels, false hair and studies from the nude were destroyed.

I am walking about the room in very light attire, taking up my pen from time to time to indite a few words.

Adelaide had not seen her travelling companions till they with the carriage, into which she was handed by Mazzuolo, with all the deference that her beauty and elegant attire might naturally command.

The next day but one the two gentlemen came again in better attire.

The guests arrived punctually as bidden, and their hostess, clad in her most splendid attire, received them with her most gracious manner.

The gondolier hesitated, glancing doubtfully at the artist's sumptuous attire, which might have indicated a state much greater than he kept; for the Veronese was famed throughout Venice, in quarters where he was better known, for an unfailing splendor of costume which would have made him at all times a model for the pictures he loved to paint.

Still she felt unwell, and seriously burdened by this festive attire, which harmonized so little with her feelings, and was so far from becoming to her figure, for she was only a few weeks from her confinement; but with her gentle and yielding disposition she did not venture, even in thought, to murmur at the compulsion imposed upon her by her step-father's command.

She became timorous or frivolous, without dignity or public esteem; her happiness was in extravagant attire, in elaborate hair-dressings, in rings and bracelets, in a retinue of servants, in gilded apartments, in luxurious couches, in voluptuous dances, in exciting banquets, in demoralizing spectacles, in frivolous gossip, in inglorious idleness.

116 adjectives to describe  attired