Word: garb
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...Mother Teresa's idea. Top-flight Fashion Designer Carnegie had whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...
...Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared on the hotel terrace, plumped his 225 pounds into a wicker chair and ordered a Coca-Cola. He wore the standard summer garb of the well-dressed Riviera yachtsman-grey flannel slacks, navy blue jacket and white yachting cap. The plump, darkly pretty young woman who accompanied him wore a similar costume. For 15 minutes, His Majesty sat in massive silence. An aide brought him a newspaper. He scanned the headlines, threw...
...centuries passed, these mystical Moslems became known as sufis (from their garb of suf, or undyed wool). They were loosely organized around leaders, or saints, who sought from the Koran not learning, but direct "experience...
...throne was an ordinary armchair in claret-colored upholstery, his garb a spotless white shirt and beige ankle-length robe, elastic-sided boots, and a white turban wound around his head, one end hanging rakishly loose in Hejaz style. Once Abdullah installed a set of distorting mirrors in the entrance to his audience chamber so that he could chuckle at the changing shapes of approaching people, particularly dignified British diplomats...
...local parish. They all slept on the floor at first, but Brother Matthias managed to beg 20 beds and blankets, cooking utensils and food. They called themselves the Brothers of the Good Shepherd and last January opened their doors to the poor. Last month Archbishop Byrne blessed their garb-white cassocks without cowls. After a year or two, if all goes well, a committee of investigation will report on the brotherhood to the archbishop, who will then recommend to the Vatican whether the brotherhood should be recognized as a new order...