On the couch and here and there about on the floor sat the Ambler freshmen, in silk kimonos of Japanese or French design.
But beautiful kimonos are luxuries, whereas suits of some kind are necessities.
On the back and sleeves of their trailing silk kimonos were embroidered the arms of their house.
When walking, or otherwise inconvenienced by folds of material clinging about their feet, they tucked the kimonos into the belt, a pretty fashion which revealed the gaily-coloured gown beneath and the high wooden clogs.
A white serge suit was added for pleasant afternoons on deck, and some dainty kimonos and negligees for stateroom use.
In another booth ladies prepared to make Japanese kimonos or dressing- jackets, and in another booth were materials for paper flowers.
You saw Japanese women in tight kimonos and funny little stilted flapping footgear running to catch a street car; and you laughed at the incongruity of it.
For years she carried that silver about wrapped in trunks full of the precious linen, and in old underwear and cotton flannel kimonos and Sam's silk socks and Maxine's discarded baby-clothes.
She kept a toy dog which she aired afternoons, and her kimonos were florid and numerous.
She wore absurd pale-blue kimonos that made her stout figure loom immense against the greenery of garden and apple tree.
The maidens, trotting demurely along in their rain-bow kimonos and little clicking sandals make a pretty picture.
But they were game, and in spite of their tight kimonos and sandalled feet they made a brave effort to follow.
The shop-keepers and their families put on their gayest kimonos and their most enticing smiles and greet you with effusion.
Here, women who wear enormous rain hats and gird their kimonos over tight blue trousers, both load the horses and lead them.
It was a festival for girls under ten, and there were hundreds of children, all with their kimonos tucked up, showing their scarlet petticoats, and looking for all the world like a mass of poppies.
The scarlet in the petticoats was universally repeated in neck and hair; but their kimonos varied much, and were of almost every shade and texture of Japanese cloth and silk crepe imaginable.
Her inner kimonos were purple and red with pale and dark green and two shades of yellow.
We took off our kimonos and put on doubly wadded ones, and making a fire in an incense-burner we were complaining of the cold when the Chamberlain and the State Councillor and Lieutenant-General Kinnobu came to inquire for us.
For their inner kimonos they used figured stuffs or gauzes.
The charms of melody and beauty were too strongly impressed in Edward's breast to permit his declining an invitation so pleasing.
Is not his son Malcolm taishatr (a second-sighted person)?
If you're afraid it isn't proper we can hang our kimonos up for curtains and make him a separate room.
Japan I knew was a country all by itself, and not a slice off of China; that it raised rice, kimonos and heathen.
He entered, closely followed by his mother, wife and daughter, their kimonos and obis in colors soft and mellow as befitted older women, and each covered with an overcoat thin of texture and rich in quality.
And now Molly was handing around nut cake and cloud bursts, it seemed almost for the last time, and after that these bright spirits in kimonos flitted away to their rooms.
Such beautiful persons in grey silkkimonos who bow, and bow and slip and slide in spotless torn white stockings with one big toe.
It will be good to feel solid earth, and to see the kimonos and temples and geishas and cherry blossoms.
And push they did, no doubt, kimonos rolled up thighwards, with good humour, sprightliness and cheerful grunts, as is the way with willing workers in Japan.
Even in the schools the girls are taught to make their kimonos meet at the neck--with a pin!
Both sexes in the district wear over their kimonos blue cotton trousers, something like a plumber's overall only tighter in the legs.
When it rains kuruma men and workmen habitually roll up their kimonos round their loins, or if they are wearing trousers, take them off.
Best of all, she never need wear kimonos again in public.
Asako, "I must get one of those geisha girls to show me how to wear my kimonos properly; they do look smart.
She bought kimonos by the dozen, and spent hours trying them on amid a chorus of admiring chambermaids and waitresses, a chorus specially trained by the hotel management in the difficult art of admiring foreigners' purchases.
It was to give her time to assimilate her surroundings that Asako was left alone for half an hour or so, while Sadako and her mother were combing their hair and putting their kimonos straight.
Silk kimonos soon become stale-looking; but this cotton dress always seems to be fresh from the laundry.
Three of the elder geisha in plain grey kimonos squatted behind the dancers, strumming on their samisens.
Brocades and kimonos were draped over chairs and bedsteads.
From one room the shoji were pushed open; and drunken men could be seen with kimonos thrown back from their shoulders showing a body reddened with saké.
Some had laid aside their cloaks; and some even had loosened their kimonos at the neck, displaying hairy chests.
Yes, they wear shocking bad clothes, don't they, directly they get out of kimonos; and even the kimonos look dingy and dirty.
There were excursion parties from the country, with their kimonos caught up to the knees, and with baked earthen faces stupidly staring, sporting each a red flower or a coloured towel for identification purposes.
Then there always seemed to be some kimonos or something to be ripped up or dyed, for they use them over and over while there is anything left of them, and whenever they are washed they must be taken apart.
What gorgeous kimonos and obis some of them have, and how they do love flowers.
The others adopt our costume when they are out, but at home they go back to kimonos and all that.
Girls in superb kimonos sit behind barred windows like dolls displayed for sale in a shop.
His chief works were pictures of geishas, in which the long lines of the kimonos are much admired.
It was endlessly interesting, with its procession of carts and wagons with their picturesque loads, and its groups of little, scurrying children in many-coloured kimonos clacking about on their clogs.
Wrapped in their kimonos and armed with Judy's electric searchlight and a big pitcher of water, as Philippe had said the floor must be wet to bring out the footprints, the girls made their way to the haunted chapel.
We had seen Tish go through a cold winter clad in a succession of sleazy silk kimonos instead of her flannel dressing-gown; terrible kimonos--green and yellow and red and pink, that looked like fruit salads and were just as heating.
The women tuck their kimonos up, and the men cast theirs aside altogether.
The women kneel beside it with sleeves and kimonos tucked up, washing clothes and vegetables, or dipping buckets in it to get water for baths.
But finekimonos and rich obis are for the wealthy Japanese; the poor cannot afford them, and dress very simply.
The kimonos of washable crepe in which they had elected to sleep during the cruise afforded them little warmth.
They did not relish the idea of going about in kimonos for the better part of the next forenoon.
She was much older than the others; her hair was short and her blue cotton robe seemed severe and plain in comparison to the gay colored kimonos of the younger maids.
They were in holiday attire and the bright colors of the kimonos and obis made a bewildering and brilliant picture.
Shall we put on our kimonos and lie on the floor in the library?
However, we grew to respect it, after visiting Benton Dori and departing with elaborate kimonos that the shrewd businessmen and women of the party would have passed by as being too expensive, at home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kimonos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
