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Example sentences for: hem

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In the countryside, the Mayan women still wear the traditional huipile, a loose cotton slip with embroidered detail; the everyday version has stitching around the neckline and hem, the ceremonial version several layers of embroidery and lace.
At last, he entered the room, the saint himself,Moulay Madani, in a white head scarf and caftanThe fading blue of a map's Moroccan coastline,Its hem embroidered with geometric ports of call.A rugged sixty, with a longshoreman's jaw,A courtier's guile, and a statesman's earnest pauses,He first explained the crescent dagger he fingeredHad been made two centuries ago by a clever Jew.Then he squinted for my reaction.
(A Versace show "opened with razor-sharp bias-cut asymmetrical navy dresses, stern except for a frill at the hem and a swatch of black lace that masked eyes."
Legs turned out to be problematic: The free-swinging or up-sliding hem invited not only the eye but the hand.
But the most perfect garment is a sleeveless black dress of tough synthetic net, ornamented with inspired beading and delicate black leather appliqués that rise from the hem in black flames (maybe seaweed) around the thighs and pelvis and descend from the neckline in uneven black clusters of grapes (maybe clouds) over the breasts and shoulders.