What is "organdie"

Usage examples of "organdie".

In her gown of white organdie, trimmed with green silk ribbons, she reminded Gavril of a snow flower, clean and pure among the garish costumes of the guests.

The leader of the Marine Band was standing before Mary looking down at the little figure in black organdie with anger and embarrassment struggling in his face.

Ada turned to the organdie flounces on the bed and took up the blue and pink ribbons.

Charlie held up a lantern, and the light danced over Janet in her organdie flounces, with the single flaxen curl on her neck.

She was dressed in a white organdie frock of the most rigorous simplicity and wore neither flower nor ornament.

She wore a dress of flowered organdie over pink sateen with pink ribbons about her waist and neck, and on her slim feet the low shoes she always affected, with their smart, bright buckles.

Two or three girls, clad in apotheosized organdie, and close hats, were already on top of the coach.

Hard on their heels came Mesdames Celeste and Elizabeth, accompanied by a bevy of seamstresses bearing armsful of muslins, crapes, taffetas, organdies, hand-painted Chinese silks, and Indian silks.

Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uni­forms and jingling spurs and flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing.

As usual, I was struck by the relationship between her surroundings, the surroundings Winifred had chosen for her—the dainty prints, the ribbon rosebuds, the organdies, the flounces—and Laura herself.

It was not a pretty outfit, and it was a far cry from the organdies and velvets of her childhood, forgotten luxuries by now.

And yet you squander those riches on croquet and organdies and trumpery works of art.

Reid was trim and lovely in an organdie and Valenciennes lace gown.