39 adjectives to describe wardrobe

At the far end of the passage she flung open her bedchamber door, entered, turned up the light, and snatched her cloak and hat from pegs beneath the curtained shelf that held her scanty wardrobe.

But after certain days the keeper of the royal wardrobe rushed into the king's presence, crying "Treason! treason!

A fourth contained male and female habiliments, spread out like the dresses in a theatrical wardrobe.

Just as a man may have money without "flashing" it, or an extensive wardrobe without sporting gaudy neckties or wearing a dress suit in the morning, so may he possess linguistic resources without making a caddish exhibition of them.

Out of some invisible wardrobe he dips for faces, as his friend Suett used for wigs, and fetches them out as easily.

She was naturally kind-hearted, and though Ethelyn's lofty ways annoyed her somewhat, her admiration for the beautiful woman and her elegant wardrobe was unbounded, and she felt a pride in waiting upon her which she would once have thought impossible to feel in anything pertaining to her duties as a servant.

A limited wardrobe of man's attire, such as poor tutors wear,a few good books, especially classics,a print or two, and a plaster model of the Pantheon, with some pieces of furniture which had seen service,these, and a child's heart full of tearful recollections and strange doubts and questions, alternating with the cheap pleasures which are the anodynes of childish grief; such were the treasures she inherited.

These foes of England could live easily for years on oatmeal, sour milk, and cod's heads, while the fighting clothes of a whole regiment would have been a scant wardrobe for the Greek Slave, and after two centuries of almost uninterrupted carnage their war debt was only a trifle over eight dollars.

The ladies of our church have made her a beautiful little wardrobe, fortunately for me.

The ideal college wardrobe for 1938.

He gave one regretful thought to the gorgeous wardrobe he was leaving behind him; but he dared not return for it.

Madame Forestier went to her handsome wardrobe, took out a large casket, brought it back, opened it, and said to Madame Loisel: "Choose, my dear.

One by one, in its turn, the key of human genius shall unlock the hidden wardrobe of the commonest flowers, and deck them out in the court dress reserved, for five thousand years, to be worn in the brighter, afternoon centuries of the world.

He purchased the rich products of the looms for the imperial wardrobe and induced the native princes to imitate his example.

This ancient falsehood has an infinite wardrobe of disguises.

Their intellectual wardrobe (to confess fairly) has few whole pieces in it.

Before that day was over she succeeded in making her daughter understand that she was to be taken to Brussels as soon as an answer could be received from Sir Magnus and the necessary additions were made to their joint wardrobe.

Perchance he inspected the juvenile wardrobe of the future Empress of his own Germany.

Clothes, which had been a main obstacle, were now accounted for, since, as he had suspected, the packs of Godwin contained a luxurious wardrobe of considerable compass.

And the landlord retired to his bed to meditate upon immense speculations in town-lots, and, when sleep came upon him, to dream that he had successfully arranged them through the medium of an angel with a speaking-trumpet, whose manifest wardrobe consisted of a pair of fancy pantaloons with stripes on the seams and side-pockets, exactly like Walker's.

Massive mahogany wardrobes, bureaus, and washstands are as generations of forebears have used them.

Gerôme also carried a pair of bags, containing, in addition to his modest wardrobe, our stores for the voyagebiscuits, Valentine's meat juice, sardines, tea, and a bottle of brandy; for, with the exception of eggs and Persian bread, one can reckon upon nothing eatable at the Chapar khanehs.

But not wishing to be alone with herself any longer on that day, she came down from the tower and went to her room, where she spent an hour with Elettra in examining the state of her very much reduced wardrobe.

They are figures composed of wood and wax, life-size, and in full costume, each having a complete separate wardrobe, but more tawdry and shabby, let us hope, than the originals ever indulged in.

Our spiritual wardrobe must be fitted and worn down here.

39 adjectives to describe  wardrobe