aigrette , auch: aigret

An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army.

Feofar mounted his favorite horse, which carried on its head an aigrette of diamonds.

The French submarine Aigrette in 1904 further improved the concept by using a diesel rather than a gasoline engine for surface power.

An aigrette is also a type of deep-fried fritter made of batter in an elongated shape.

He served in the Aigrette in the Caraibs.

It was a jewelled aigrette consisting of a central flower with leaves and buds, and upward-facing rays.

"D'you see that aigrette there?

"Oh, the aigrette?"

He wore a linen tunic with only a plumed aigrette on his head to remind Sharina of the feathered state in which he'd rescued her.

Once at the church she would don a crown like diamond and gold aigrette, over which she would drape the whisper-thin Brussels lace veil.

The French frigate Aigrette, with the 74-gun Glorieux in sight, was able to overtake Loyalist.

The grand duchess made many purchases at Cartier (including a diamond briolette aigrette, a pearl choker with imperial eagles,...) and was thus one of its mayor clients.

On 18 March 1779, under captain Charles Holmes Everitt, the Arethusa engaged the French Aigrette, sustaining considerable damage in the fight.

He received "an elephant, a horse, five thousand rupees in money, two diamond rings, a jewelled aigrette, a set of gold buttons, and models of all his instruments in gold."

The word "egret" comes from the French word "aigrette" that means both "silver heron" and "brush," referring to the long filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season.

The 61.50 carat (12.3 g) whiskey-coloured diamond, "The Eye of the Tiger", was mounted by Cartier in a turban aigrette for the Jam Sahib or Maharajah of Nawanagar in 1934.

On 18 March 1779 Arethusa fought the French vessel Aigrette for two hours off Ushant, but during the engagement a larger French line of battle ship was spotted and Arethusa broke off.

Presently his glistening jaws opened,--his tongue darted forth vibratingly,--and he gave vent to a low hissing sound, erecting and depressing his crest with extraordinary rapidity, so that it flashed like an aigrette of rare gems.

A 1910 piece of jewelry Iribe designed, a luxe turban brooch shaped as an aigrette inlaid with emerald and pearl, was worn by his wife in a 1911 stage production, "Le Cadet des Courtas."

Soon afterward, she caught sight of Marie Antoinette, "towering, huge, clad in a very full robe of white woollen stuff, on her head a bizarre cameo-embroidered turban of bright blue silk with several peacock feathers pinned to it, forming an aigrette."

The rest is mostly curiosities: the usual family portraits, orders, a Turkish diamond aigrette, various Indian knicknacks brought back by an ancestor who was Viceroy near the turn of the century; and also a small but handsome display of 18th-century costumes.

More splendid than her antique fan of ombré ostrich plumes or her green-black coq feather boa, more splendid even than the towering aigrette á la Pougy which she wore sometimes to go with the diamond.

- Un Irlandais, commenta la femme qui observait à présent un chapeau noir surmonté d'une aigrette blanche, lequel semblait sur le point de prendre son envol.

The walls of the room contained what is usually there, the enlarged photograph, the coloured photograph, the amateur theatrical group, the group of His Excellency's Executive Council, the native dignitary with a diamond-tipped aigrette in the front of his turban.

She allegedly told Rodionov that "The buttons on her coat aren't buttons, they are diamonds; the aigrette of that hat conceals a diamond from the shah of Persia; and that belt there - underneath it are ropes of pearls.