Sample Sentences forregalia (auto-selected)
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And on the other side of the waiting room, segregated by some chairs and modern time, were Vlad, a breathless Marion, and at least twenty other warriors and maidens, all decked out in full medieval regalia. (source)regalia = special clothes indicating one's role or membership in a group
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Werner is summoned by an eleven-year-old in full regalia to the commandant's office.† (source)
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The regalia was given to her by an old friend.† (source)
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In the South, among extreme chauvinists, you sometimes find a strange affinity for Nazi regalia.† (source)
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Although the morning light was more evident there and the room had a high-ceilinged loftiness to it, it was, at the same time, austere—the towering portraits of former headmasters and faculty frowned grimly down upon us in their deep-black academic regalia.† (source)
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In the confusion that followed, if the Archbishop of Canterbury had materialized in full regalia Jean Louise would not have been in the least surprised: the congregation had failed to notice any change in Mrs. Haskins's lifelong interpretation, and they intoned the Doxology to its bitter end as they had been reared to do, while Mrs. Haskins romped madly ahead like something out of Salisbury Cathedral.† (source)
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Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four-color poster titled "Himalayan Trilogy," depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse-the planet's highest, second highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively Superimposed against the images of these peaks, the poster showed a grinning, bearded man in full alpine regalia.† (source)
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There, on a table, surrounded at some distance by a large and luxurious divan, every species of tobacco known,—from the yellow tobacco of Petersburg to the black of Sinai, and so on along the scale from Maryland and Porto-Rico, to Latakia,—was exposed in pots of crackled earthenware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, according to their size and quality, pueros, regalias, havanas, and manillas; and, in an open cabinet, a collection of German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouth-pieces ornamented with coral, and of narghiles, with their long tubes of morocco, awaiting the caprice or the sympathy of the smokers.† (source)
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TOM joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their "regalia."† (source)
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She had simply turned the royal regalia into a device for her memory.† (source)
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She had great difficulty walking; the regalia of an apprentice geisha is so cumbersome.† (source)
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The men were dressed in ritual Masonic regalia.† (source)
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The gods arrived a few minutes later in their full war regalia, thundering into the throne room and expecting a battle.† (source)
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Surely behind those glassy, candid doors there are no more long wooden pointers, no black rubber strap, no hard wooden desks in rows; no King and Queen in their stiff regalia, no inkwells; no sniggering about underpants; no bitter, whiskery old women.† (source)
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Selected visitors were permitted to pay their condolences, including the chief aide to the Crown governor who wore his full military regalia, a symbol of the Crown's concern.† (source)
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The elevator doors of the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first floors were padlocked; a single door and one elevator were left as sole means of access, guarded by soldiers in full battle regalia.† (source)
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