Word: satine
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When the four nobles appear disguised as "Muscovites," they have white satin trousers and tall black-fur headgear with chin straps, and disport amusingly like a quarter of Don Cossacks. The messenger of sad tidings, Mercade (Barry Corbin), turns out to be an ambassador complete with chest decorations, attended by a pair of underlings carrying umbrellas and the indispensable attache cases...
...opening night audience, which included such motley elements as a girl dressed in a satin bedspread designed to look a mini-skirt, and another who kept explaining to her boy friend that South Orange, N.J., was a suburban area and not part of a city, enjoyed the show. The success of Pym and his cast in making this fable of Grania more than just a fable suggests that you will...
...were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...
Joel Porte, senior tutor in Quincy House said that anybody who "wanted to identify himself to me" as having satin was put on probation, but Porte declined to say how many students did this...
...single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach's picked half a dozen choice-and expensive-items, including a loosely shaped $1,400 black velvet cocktail dress featuring a large black satin bow, with puffs of black lace as collar and cuffs. Last week both looked like sure winners among the 40 dresses, suits and coats that Ohrbach's brought back from Paris...