stomacher

How To Use stomacher In A Sentence

• She was dressed in a style I had only seen in old portraits, a stiff black dress with flaring skirts and a lace-ornamented stomacher.
• Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher ?
• She wore a dress of silver tissue and a stomacher covering the whole centre part of her bodice, set with a number of very large diamonds, worth quite extravagant sums according to the Duchess of Northumberland.
• At the base of the triangle made by her stomacher, and foregrounded by a white ribbon tied in a bow, hangs an emblem of the Queen's chastity.
• She was wearing no high coronet of diamonds, she was encased in no gemmed stomacher, and they had girt her with no jewelled sword. Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
• Naturally she has paid close attention to her immensely panniered sea-green dress and the long stomacher of roseate buckles which clasps the narrow span of her waist.
• A frillier dress, of sea-green, with a ribboned stomacher, and a raised chin make her air more confident.
• Pinning the white stomacher into the dress, I turned before the mirror, admiring myself.
• The tall young Queen was in crimson satin with cunningly-wrought silver embroideries, trimmed with tufted silver fringe, her stomacher stiff with silver bullion studded with gold rosettes and Roman pearls, her bodice cut low to display her splendid neck, decked by a carcanet of pearls and rubies, and surmounted by a fan-like cuff of guipure, high behind and sloping towards the bust. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
• She looked over the maid's shoulder and spotted a stomacher and a high-waisted gown on his bed.