Terry emerged soon, kimono clad, his face lighted hospitably when he spied the Major sitting by the lamp-lit table.
I want you to go over and call on them when you are up here Christmas; it's just like a story in Hans Andersen; they keep a cow, Dorcas, who wears a kimono on very cold nights.
Oui, oui, mademoiselle Hazel;" and Gabrielle tripped across the room with the white kimono in one hand and fresh towels in the other.
She was wearing a kimono of sky-blue silk, which she had thrown on hastily over her nightgown, and beneath the embroidered folds, Caroline caught a glimpse of bare feet in blue slippers.
In a kimono and one of those pink caps one could cook a breakfast without soiling one's fingers.
The fold of kimonothat covered Julia's bosom heaved rapidly and her eyes were very bright.
When she saw Ford she caught thekimono so closely around her throat that she choked.
She was fully dressed, except that instead of her bodice she wore a kimono that left her throat and arms bare.
The loose sleeves of the kimono fell back to her shoulders showing the white arms; the eyes raised to Ford were glistening with tears.
The swish of their tails was like the grace of a trailing kimono worn by the ladies of long ago, while their fins suggested the sleeves of a geisha girl.
The bride is clad in a white kimonoand veil, which she keeps all her life, and wears once more when she is dead.
Besides, Japanese dressmaking is a very simple matter; a kimono is made of straight breadths of cloth basted together.
The girls had dark red merino skirts, with kimono waists of some dark stuff.
There was nothing else for it, the lovely kimono must be shorn of its glory, at least on one side.
There wasn't a single thing among her belongings that she could make stockings of, unless--she sighed as she picked it up and shook out the folds of the prettiest kimono she had ever owned.
What she wanted to sketch was only a small girl in a gay kimono and a big red umbrella, but the tiny mite made a vivid spot of color as she stood motionless to watch a great brown moth hovering over a bed of iris.
The gleam of the western sun caught the sheen of his silk kimonoand covered him with a glow.
Jane had heard the commotion, and there she stood in her sleeping garments and cap, a kimono floating behind her.
The black silk of his kimono seemed to enforce the seriousness in his dark eyes.
It was all done with minute precision, including the rakish display of a prescribed few millimeters of silk under kimono at the neck, an erotic touch for traditionalists.
Next was the kimono itself, right side folded under the left and then bound at the waist with a cord, the excess length being pulled up and folded over so that the hem just cleared the toes.
As they approached, an elderly woman in a dark kimono emerged from the recesses of the interior.
Behind him were two uniformed hotel maids, bearing what was surely the most gorgeous kimono she had ever seen, heavy silk with a hand-painted landscape, edged in gold brocade.
Tam knew full well that donning a formal kimono was no small undertaking, but she'd forgotten what a major task it really could be.
He'd once declared that the kimono was actually the most sensual garment in the world.
Finally she pushed him gently backward and smoothed her cheek against his thigh, drawing back his kimono even more.
Then the fusuma parted and the evening's surprise swept into the room, wearing an austere autumn kimono of finest silk and holding a shamisen, a three-stringed instrument with a cat-skin face and gold fittings.
It couldn't be true, though, since chambermaids in kimono darted here and there balancing lacquered dinner trays.
Mori, whose own kimono was a pattern of delicately shaded autumn leaves, was seated alongside Noda, while Ken was placed next to Tam.
She pushed away his kimono and trailed the petal upward, lightly brushing his own nipples.
As the sashes and cords and cinches got ever tighter and more suffocating, she remembered what wearing a kimono can do to your psyche.
Just then an official wearing some sort of formal-looking black kimono emblazoned with the kiku crest of the Imperial Household Agency came walking briskly out of the office behind us.
The pelisse came from Persia at the time of the Crusaders, just as the kimono was brought in recent times from Japan.
She slipped on her kimono and crept into the hall.
A Persian kimono was draped over Mahomet to represent wings and a tightly fitting white cap with a point over the forehead covered his head.
Istra was curled on the bed in a leaf-green silk kimono with a great gold-mounted medallion pinned at her breast.
Fresh from her slumbers she came, wrapped in a scanty kimono whose thin, clinging folds revealed more of her shapely beauty than he had ever seen as she hurried across the wide chamber.
Hermione, drawing the folds of herkimono about her.
After slipping into her kimono she moved about the room swiftly, gathering her most precious things.
The kimono was good enough; it was particularly becoming, besides.
As the kimono is quite narrow in the skirt, the women take very short steps.
It is not necessary to enter into details regarding the female toilet, as the magazines have made the world familiar with the wide sleeved, loose fitting kimono with its convenient pockets.
Two neck cloths are usually worn, folded inside the kimono to protect the bare throat.
The shopkeepers and clerks generally wear the native clothing, which consists of a divided skirt and a short kimono held in place by a sash.
Whatever made her do it--get a red kimono with her hair that shade?
There was a motley array of every color of kimono that the mind of girl could conceive.
She accounted for it with a merry laugh, as curled in the silk kimono she remained in possession of my nightly couch.
Dawn did not appear before me that night until I opened my door and called-- "Lady Fair, the kimono awaits thy perfumed presence!
But she sat down on Grace's bed in her pink cotton kimono in a distinctly more cheerful frame of mind than that in which she had entered the room.
The Grand Chew Chew felt in the sleeve of his kimono and brought out a bit of crumpled silver paper, and adjusting his horn spectacles, read slowly.
Some fudge was tucked in to help out his journey and Edwin, with the warm wishes of the kimono party, started on his patriotic travels.
Of course Andy, the soon-to-be husband, was allowed some consideration, although the first night after the arrival of the guests even he was debarred and the old chums had a kimono party in the library.
My, how much I have missed in never being asked to a kimono party before," whispered the male guest in Judy's ear.
You see this is a kimono party and gentlemen are not admitted," said Molly, helping Judy off with her coat and veil.
I'll be bound he does not know a kimono from a ball gown--I can't tell it twice.
She wears a purple kimono decorated with multicoloured flowers and bordered with a vermilion scarf, and a green obi tied around her waist; her outerkimono is white with a red flowered design.
The kimono is cream white, decorated with bright flowers and lined with rose colours.
I found I could only get stiff burlap, such as you put on walls, in art green, and I couldn't picture Poppy in a kimono of that as being anything but wretched.
Mandy emerged from bed, clad in a red kimono and a pink boudoir cap, to receive this comforting message.
In a square box, smelling of sandalwood, was an exquisite kimono of palest pink crêpe, embroidered with wisteria blossoms.
When at last he had thrown a kimono about him, and wearily climbed the stairs, he was surprised to see Rudolph, in the white-washed room ahead, pacing the floor and ardently twisting his little moustache.
Then she put on stockings, shoes and the pink kimono Ida had brought, and ran along the hall to dinner.
Susan invited her to call and she immediately advanced along the hall in the blue silk kimono she was wearing over her nightgown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kimono" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
