watered silk in a sentence

Examples

1. The fascia worn by priests, deacons and seminarians is black, while the fascia worn by priests in the service of the Papal Household is black watered silk.
2. The hood is purple, fully lined and bound around the gown with ?" white watered silk, and with a purple velvet ribbon ?" from the cowl edge.
3. Needless to say, if somebody has designs on you in the idiomatic or traditional sense, they are assuredly not decorating you with such things as watered silk, polka dots, sprigging, or even batik.
4. The night he dined at the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after a reading in Boston, he probably offered the assembled gentlemen cigars from his luxurious sealskin cigar case, which was lined in blue watered silk.
5. All Bailiffs and Dames Grand Cross may wear their badges either at the left hip on a ( for men ) or ( for women ) wide, black watered silk ribbon over the right shoulder or from a wide black band at the collar.
6. Using the Groves classification system, PhD, DEng and MD graduates wear a " Cambridge doctors [ d1 ] " shape gown of purple cloth, with front facings of white watered silk with a 1 " purple velvet ribbon ?" from outside edges of facings.
7. That the moon, indeed, seems to connive in his extinction is suggested by its sometime appearance as " a white saber / On a somber cushion of watered silk " that threatens to come whistling down on Pierrot's neck ( 24 : " Decapitation " ).
8. The 19th-century retreat of the Russian Prince Lobanov-Rostowsky, it's a Belle Epoque fantasy, full of wedding cake plasterwork, chandeliers of pastel porcelain or Venetian glass, walls covered with watered silk, a garden with specimen trees gathered from all over the world, and metal dragons holding up the awning at the main entrance.
9. With the same motu proprio, the Pope ordered that the violet cassock ( then used in penitential periods and in mourning ) be made of wool, not silk, and in February 1965, under Pope Paul VI, a circular of the Sacred Ceremonial Congregation abolished the use of watered silk also for the red cassock.
10. (Watered silk, in case you are wondering, is neither damp nor diluted, but a silk patterned with discreet shiny patterns, while sprigging usually consists of regular patterns of tiny flowers or buds . ) No, they are more likely to be eyeing you with a view to making a profit, or to putting their mark on you.