Word: chiffoned
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...drop out of character. While recuperating, Vanessa accepted an invitation to make her singing debut on French television. Critics raved about her voice, but it was her appearance that dazzled most people. Barefoot and as Duncanesque as ever, she looked like a flowing fountain of purple and mauve chiffon-and only the stagehands could see that her hands were trembling with nervousness through the whole ordeal...
...Scandals were invariably festooned in confections of bangles and ostrich feathers whipped up by the designer known as Erte. He also created the lavish sets and languid costumes, trimmed with serpentine curlicues, that made some Metropolitan Opera productions beggar those of today. From 1915 to 1938, the lithe chiffon-draped mademoiselles that graced the covers of Harper's Bazaar were largely the work...
...skin raincoat. If she would rather be Tom Sawyer, Chester Weinberg has just the thing: avocado green velvet overalls that come to midcalf, and are topped by a lace-trimmed blouse. With George Stavropoulos, she can play the Greek goddess in classical floor-length gowns trailing yards of filmy chiffon...
...quite a bit pregnant, Mrs. Patrick Nugent, 19, was back home for the first time in five months visiting with her parents and Lynda at the White House. "It's nice to feel elegant again," she confessed, as she stole the show in an A-shaped apricot chiffon gown at the dinner honoring Turkey's President Cevdet Sunay. The baby is expected June 17 or thereabouts, and the Nugents are still grappling for a name. "Kimberly is my favorite name in the whole world," confided Luci. "But since I couldn't wait and named my dog that...
Swathed in acres of floor-length red chiffon, she attacked her cello in ungainly frenzy, reaching forward to take a massive chop with her bow, arching her back, tossing her head, closing in on the cello again and again...