The Queen was in her chamber, and she was middling old, Her petticoat was satin and her stomacher was gold.
Lady Flo Sturt, as Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, was in rich cream satin, with bodice and sleeves of antique lace, and stomacher of diamonds.
The train of crimson velvet was embroidered with the French emblem, and Her Grace had a stomacher of splendid diamonds.
The trimmings and ruffles of exquisite point lace--had belonged to Queen Charlotte--and the stomacher was trimmed with lace and jewels.
The stomacher a large trefoil in emeralds, and the short sleeves cut to resemble the Irish emblem.
The shirt applied to the under-garment of both sexes, and the half-shirt referred to the stomacher over which the dress was laced.
And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth: and burning instead of beauty.
And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
One of the most popular corsets of the time was the corset and stomacher shown in the accompanying illustration.
Her scarlet waist was finished with bands of black velvet, with the beautiful stomacher in front of that.
Her stomacher was worked with bright beads on scarlet cloth.
The stomacher had rows of large pearls, of very great value, mixed with diamonds.
Extending from the stomacher to the bottom of the mantle were rosettes and other ornaments of diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, forming a broad band down the mantle.
It was of pale brown lutestring, a little lighter and brighter in colour than her own hair, and with its stomacher and collar of white lace it added greatly to the beauty of her appearance.
You would not, for instance, see a lady when wearing Grecian draperies disport herself in the same fashion as one bearing the stiff stomacherand monstrous farthingale of the Elizabethan period.
The dress worn by the women is very pretty, displaying a yellow or red stomacher and dark bodice, worn over nine or ten full short petticoats in different colours.
For a short time only, however, such moderation ruled, and the hoops came back larger than ever in 1784, when the Duchess of Cumberland swept the floor in five yards of brocade, and a stomacher blazing stiffly with jewels.
These frames, however, were not primarily used to reduce the waist, for they were worn over a corset, so that the dress might yield not to the weakness of a single fold, and that the stomacher might present a front of unruffled smoothness.
Her dress is of plain black brocade, made high at the neck, where it is secured with a small diamond pin, the front opening and disclosing a lace stomacher set with undressed pearls.
He puckered up his deprecatory and comical lips as he imagined that that medal would purchase him the right to sigh dolorously in front of whatever stomacher it finally adorned.
Yes," said he, with a sigh, taking the stomacher from me and fondling it.
There were Mr. and Mrs. Willington Bodfish--they left early and the stomacher was known to be safe at the time of their departure.
Your husband comes next, and is not likely to be the guilty party, because if he wants a diamond stomacher he needn't steal it, having money enough to buy a dozen of them if he wishes.
I blushed at the intimation conveyed by his words, and was silent; and Holmes, gathering up his tools and stuffing the stomacher in the capacious bosom of his coat, bade me au revoir, and went out into the night.
All the morning papers were full of the strange recovery of the Burlingame stomacher the following Tuesday morning, and the name of Raffles Holmes was in every mouth.
I suppose you read in the papers this morning how Mrs. Burlingame's diamond stomacher has turned up missing.
Suddenly I remembered his injunction to me to look for myself and see if the stomacher really was concealed there, and I hastened to act upon it.
Her sleeves came to the elbows and her round arms were white and plump, and the bit of neck left by the stomacher of lace showed scarcely any sign of age.
Beside it was Mistress Mason in her wedding gown of satin trimmed with a perfect cloud of Venice point, a stomacher set with precious stones, and a brocaded petticoat.
A stomacher of scarlet cloth, braided with yellow lace in cross bars, confined her slender waist.
This shows the enormous ruff and the huge, ungainly-looking "fardingale," and the longstomacher brought low down to a peak in front.
From the bosom, partly bare, descended the long stomacher on each side of which jutted out horizontally the enormous "fardingale" or farthingale, a construction of hoops similar to the crinoline of more recent times.
An embroidered stomacher or vest was sometimes worn over the shirt and under the doublet.
From the stomacher a band of jewels on gold tissue descended.
Besides her diamond tiara she had a stomacherof brilliants, and diamond ear-rings.
Stomacher (for a Dress) of Needle-Point, called Rose-Point or Point de Venise XLV.
Sometimes the Stomacher almost rises to the chin, and a Modesty-bit serves the purpose of a Ruff: at other times it is so complaisant as not to reach half way, and the Modesty is but a transparent shade to the beauties underneath.
When our present Queen landed in England 1761, she was habited in a gold Brocade with a white ground; had a Stomacher ornamented with diamonds; and wore a Fly-cap with richly laced Lappets.
Carus, she has forty diamond buttons upon her petticoat, and her stomacher is all amethysts!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stomacher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
