I had taffeta last year, with velvet and satin this winter; but I don't know what I'll get yet this summer.
The legs and the bill should be canary-coloured taffeta silk.
White taffeta ribbon may be used the same way if an all white hat is wanted.
Here comes her poor father, now," the lady in taffeta announced with the dramatic commiseration of the self-invited auditor.
She was suddenly inspired to take the soft taffeta girdle from the waist of her dark blue muslin gown, and bind it turban-wise about her head.
The rear was brought up by the litter of the Cardinal of Lorraine, wrapped in purple taffeta hangings and surrounded by several leading dignitaries and Princes of the Church.
He hands for me to carry a silken ladder and a guitar; takes his dagger and sword; and wraps himself up to the eyes in a taffeta mantle of light yellow.
She had advised the taffeta coat and skirt for travelling, with an extra cloth coat for cool days.
You may write in this manner on white taffeta or white linen, especially lawn; and as a token when anything is written on a piece of taffeta or linen a little snip can be cut off from one of the corners.
She wore the gown she had been arrested in, a plain yellow taffeta with muslin ruffles at the throat and elbows and a dark green pelerine with a cape.
There was a fire on the hearth, very brightly burning, and near the window a Bed, on which my lord the Count Charles lay, wrapped in a Flowered Robe oftaffeta stuff.
From these rose a bunch of asparagus ferns, and stuck amid the ferns, like big roses, were a dozen rosettes of taffeta ribbon of six different shades of red and pink.
At each place put a few bachelors' buttons, to which attach a menu card by a narrow white taffeta ribbon.
Dinner and carriage-dress, the skirt a light taffeta silk, with nine narrow flounces, pinked on the edge.
It has a bow upon the middle of the lower edge of the yoke, with streamers, and is lined with taffeta in color to match.
I have the privilege of being a field representative for Taffeta Beauty Aids.
The delicately perfumed applicator pads for all applications of Taffeta Preparations are pre-saturated with Firmol Tone Charger.
Chintz and taffeta and fine velvet are all appropriate to use.
A console table, for instance, with a mirror over it and sidelights, might be just the touch needed between two windows hung with plaintaffeta curtains.
The fine examples would look quite out of place in a bungalow or very simple house, and the simple kind founded on peasant designs would not be suitable in rooms with paneled walls and lovely taffeta curtains.
In a few minutes a friend came in to tea, and I went upstairs to my room, and unpacked the blue taffeta dress I had bought for my sister's wedding.
He had a black taffeta cap on his head, and a furred velvet mantle was thrown over his knees.
This personage wore a black taffeta robe with loose sleeves, and a silken skull-cap of the same hue, which set off his sallow features.
Now take the "extravagant" girl with her flowered taffeta silk, or plain satin, or brocade dress.
But that taffeta cost, perhaps, only a dollar a yard.
The first spokesman was clad in a purple taffeta mantle; in one hand was a palm-tree branch, on his head a garland of the like sort, and in the other hand he carried a dog.
The blue taffeta had been ripped and pressed in anticipation of the vacation leisure, and as soon as the breakfast dishes were out of the way Amy had commandeered the dining-room table as a cutting table.
Amy recollected that in her absorption with the blue taffeta she had neglected to dust the living room that morning.
With the help of a paper pattern she had remodeled the taffeta according to the latest dictates of fashion.
As, according to the modern surgery, all wounds are healed by mere covering, so, instead of the English taffeta plaster, mere taffeta on the body renders the same service.
The walls are grey, curtains of green and grey, antique taffeta being used, while the chairs have green silk on their seats and the table is of green and faded gold.
The bed has a cover of green taffeta exactly like curtains, with the same trimming of puffed taffeta, edged with a black moss-trimming.
These curtains hang from dull-gold cornices of wood, with open carving, through which one gets glimpses of the green taffeta of the curtains.
Tearing a handkerchief, he made shift to bandage his wounds, and then from his bundle he took his fine taffeta summer suit, which on a winter's day must render him ridiculous.
Craigmillar, he started up in bed, so that the taffeta slipped from his face, and it was with difficulty that she dissembled the loathing with which the sight of its pustules inspired her.
Item, for strait canvass, thirteen pence halfpenny; item, for an ell and a half of taffeta to cover your old canvass doublet, fourteen shillings and threepence.
The real cortège was headed by camels bearing gifts from the House el-Umbar to the great white woman who stood, on the balcony in a grey silk taffeta dress, a shawl of priceless lace on her head and a grey parrot upon her shoulder.
They whispered to one another about the taffeta lining, and about little mouse tippets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taffeta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
