From his rosy turban depended a tremulous aigrette of brilliants,73 blazing with a thousand shifting tints.
The Sultan presented Lord Nelson after the battle of the Nile with an aigrette of diamonds.
In such a case a fork or aigrette of five or more points should invariably be used in place of a single point.
His terminals are very numerous, and assume the form of an aigrette or brush with five or seven points, the central point being a little higher than the rest, which form with it an angle of 45°.
His royal robes were still upon him, a diamond aigrette sparkled in the turban of the Caliph, and there he sat upon the ground, and never took his eyes off it.
You will doubtless be shocked when I tell you that I was perfectly aware of the conditions under which the aigrette is obtained before you began your exposure of the method.
He published a succession of pages showing the frightful cost at which the aigrette was secured.
The demand for the aigrette constantly increased and rose to hitherto unknown figures.
And at length emerges the littleaigrette of silver flowers, the ebony coiffure, the gray silk robe and mauve sash of Mademoiselle Jasmin, my fiancee!
We return to the room; she is the centre of the circle and seated; and they have placed the aigrette of flowers in her hair.
The elder of the two women was expensively dressed in mauve silk, and wore a small bonnet with a white aigrette over a coffee-coloured fringe of hair that suggested art.
Miss Pritchett flushed and tossed her head till the aigrette in her smart little bonnet shook like a leaf.
The same with regard to my schako, where the silver braid and aigrette of cock's feathers had to be replaced by woollen braiding and a horse-hair busby.
Vernet knows all his sitters through and through, from the aigrette on the schako to the gaiter-buttons.
In his paroxysm of religious fervour, he suddenly grasped a serpent and wound it around his head in such a manner that it remained there with its flat head reared in front in the place where an aigrette might have been.
One aigrette for the hair was exceedingly beautiful.
A sabre, the hilt actually covered with precious stones, clanked at his side, and the aigrette of his plumed hat was a large diamond.
You ought to have had a white satin doublet and hose, slashed with pale cherry-colored ribbons to match, small hat looped, aigrette and white plume.
I could write you many pages of the horrors practiced in gathering aigrettefeathers in Venezuela by the natives for the millinery trade of Paris and New York.
She stretched herself, shaking back her head, while the diamond points of her aigrette danced and glittered.
Madame then took from a little cupboard a small box, and drew from it an aigrette of diamonds, at the same time saying to the King, "I have my reasons for it not being handsomer.
I had presented the aigrette Madame de Pompadour gave me before supper, which had greatly delighted the young lady, and she was in high spirits.
There is an aigretteto match the collar, which His Highness wears in his turban.
A Hindu gentleman in full dress must have a necklace, an aigrette of diamonds, a sunburst in front of his turban, and two or three brooches upon his shoulders or breast.
She shook her head with a gesture of irritation, while the aigrette in her hat sent out little iridescent flashes of blue and green.
There was a few years ago, in a Georgia city, an attorney who accepted the aigrette "scalps" of twenty-seven Egrets from a client who was unable to pay cash for a small service rendered.
As the evening advanced and the exercise of the dance loosened Mrs. Tutts's simple coiffure, the aigrette slipped forward until that lady resembled nothing so much as a sportive unicorn.
A diamond aigrette sparkled on her head, but her beautiful white throat was bare of ornaments.
She gave herself airs, and bought an aigrette for her Sunday bonnet.
In the latter part of 1919 the federal regulations have been interpreted to make it illegal to possess aigrette plumes, and henceforth the law will be so enforced.
This is one of the most cruel phases of the plume trade, and there is no other way to secure the aigrette plumes of the Egrets than by killing the adult birds.
An imitation in fire of the aigrette; like the aigrette of glass.
The aigrette takes its name from a bird, whose feathers serve to make up an ornament for the head.
In exchange for this aigrette which she offered her bridegroom, he placed upon her finger a ring set with stones that shone like the stars in heaven, and over her shoulders a mantle of cloth of gold.
If I had but one sigh for the poor fellow to whose galanterie I succeeded, I had many a smile for myself as I passed and repassed before the glass, adjusting a belt, or training an aigrette to fall more gracefully.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aigrette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
