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Example sentences for "purple velvet"

  • The countess, dressed in a magnificent costume, went slowly up the marble stairs, her long train of white satin borne by a page in purple velvet.

  • Her tall figure was set off to great advantage by a dress of purple velvet, embroidered with silver.

  • Garter of Purple Velvet embroider’d with Letters of Gold, and deck’d out with Diamonds and Rubies.

  • It is bound in purple velvet, sprigs of oak and fleurs de lis being prominent in the decoration of the outside.

  • It is illustrated throughout, and is handsomely bound in purple velvet.

  • It is magnificently bound in purple velvet, with the usual gilt stamping, chiefly in patterns made of small crowns.

  • On the north side of the altar sat the archbishop in a purple velvet chair; the bishops were placed on forms along the north side of the wall, betwixt the King and the pulpit.

  • It measures 20 x 14 inches, and is bound in purple velvet.

  • Queen Katharine Parr has the reputation of having herself worked the cover of a copy of Petrarch printed at Venice in 1544, and bound in purple velvet (Fig.

  • It measures 29 x 20 inches, and is bound in purple velvet, and decorated with gold stamp-work of a similar kind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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