Aigret
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The face beneath the turban, draped with loops of diamonds under an emerald
aigret
, was absolutely colorless.
More example sentences with word aigret
The mittens were of the crudest magenta wool, with green stripes at the wrist; but the child was robed in stiff gold brocade from head to foot, and in his turban was set an
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of diamonds six inches high, while emeralds in a thick cluster fell over his eyebrow.
The Maharaj Kunwar ran his eyes delightedly up and down the august figure of his father, beginning with the polished gold-spurred jack-boots, and ascending to the snow-white doeskin breeches, the tunic blazing with gold, and the diamonds of the Order of the Star of India, ending with the saffron turban and its nodding emerald
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