aigrette उदाहरण वाक्य

Chapman later wrote, " Under his guardianship the'white birds'had increased in numbers, which, with aigrettes selling at $ 32 an ounce, made the venture worth the risk ( for there was a risk; as the man who attempted to'shoot out'a rookery while Bradley was on guard would probably have lost his own'plume'); the warden watched and in his absence his charges were slaughtered ."
But the jewels and the ecclesiastical objects in particular do not disappoint, and the rest of the show _ the handsome portraits of Catherine the Great and her descendants, the elaborately embroidered court gowns from the last Romanov family _ swirls around them like gorgeous footnotes . ( The elaborate hair ornaments called aigrettes, for example, are present both in the show and in Alexander Roslin's full-length 1770 portrait of the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna .)