Word: marabou
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...beach robe with yellow trim. Really putting on the dog was Designer Ursula Lehnhardt, who wrapped her poodle Peppy in white mink and a collar studded with black dice, and Designer Larry Reiter, who dressed his wolfhound Czarina in silver lame and his whippet Isis in a $250 wild marabou coat dyed in bands of blue, purple, pink and orange...
Romance, in high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown...
...That is how it should be," said the lion. "Enter the decision," he called to the scribe, the most learned marabou. "Put down that it was found, after a discussion and thorough screening, that the special branch for the handling of complaints has proved uncommonly successful. Do your ranks need reinforcement...
...threnodic '303 Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman was just a "fun-loving American boy," "a combination of Raskolnikov and Mark Tidd."* He loved his alma mater's "mingled smell of wood smoke and freshmen." But one day, while "reclining on my chaise longue in a negligee trimmed with marabou," Perelman glanced at the "Why Don't You?" department in Harper's Bazaar: "Why don't you try the effect of diamond roses and ribbons flat on your head, as Garbo wears them when she says good-bye to Armand. . . ?" "Why don't you travel with...
They walked through the streets of New York, saw marabou bed jackets and ermine ear muffs in shop windows, taxis scurrying everywhere, ice cream plentiful. They were back home...