A silken thing of black brocade, embroidered with scattered purple pansies.

He was in his black brocade robe with all the fur on it.

Miss Marple wore a black brocade dress, very much pinched in round the waist.

Wear a plain white linen waistcoat, not one of cream colored silk, or figured or even black brocade.

She wore a brial or skirt of black brocade, and a black mantle ornamented like that of the queen.

He settled his big horn spectacles more firmly on his nose, and flecked invisible dust from his rich black brocade coat.

I didn't look in the least like the Marquise de Morville in her antique black brocade and tiny veiled widow's cap.

I wasn't able to tell them-butthey seemed to have the right idea: that you never wear anything less than black brocade.

Her dress was a soft black brocade, with lace collar and cuff, which had once belonged to an aunt of her mother's.

It's very strange, but old ladies of a certain class-thealmost obsolete class that wears caps and connects piety with black brocade-likeme.

The candle sconces on the walls were filled with black candles, and the heavy black brocade curtains were pulled across the tall windows.

Her jewelled hands trembled in her black brocade lap, and the pulpy curves of her face collapsed as if it were a pricked balloon.

She was dressed in a stiff black brocade dress, with a white lace head-dress over her bandeaux; she wore short, white, tight kid gloves.

A voluminous robe of heavy black -on- black brocade floated downward from it; Anakin felt the current in the Force that carried the robe to Palpatine's hand.

Mrs. Hayes wore a magnificent sealskin dolman and a black brocaded silk dress, with a white uncut velvet bonnet and ostrich feathers.