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Example sentences for: gown

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Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.
Two years ago the widow of Kurt Cobain and "Queen of Grunge" threw a post-Oscar party in a yellowing thrift-store gown and tiara, the embodiment of rock-star glamour.
A swimsuit portion, or perhaps an evening gown competition.
The celebrant wears a long white gown, similar to a wedding dress; has fifteen maids, damas, with their escorts, chambelanes; and sometimes performs a choreographed dance or waltz.
The guild takes many forms now, but it retains much of the Middle Ages, of the ecclesiastical Schoolmen, who gathered together in quasi-monastic “colleges,” behind walls that marked them off from the rest of the world (a phenomenon that in England is still called “town and gown”).