Crossword-Solution: BODICES 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

One lost the contour of faces and figures--indeed, any effect of line whatever--and there was only the color of bodices past counting, the shimmer of fabrics soft and firm, silky and sheer: red, mauve, pink, blue, lilac, purple, ecru, rose, yellow, cream, and white, all the colors that an impressionist finds in a sunlit landscape, with here and there the dead shadow of a frock coat.

She had worn shirtwaists with a broad “Gibson” shoulder tuck, when other Winnebago women were still encased in linings and bodices.

Holland is famous for its charitable institutions.} There were old-fashioned gentlemen in cocked hats and velvet knee breeches; old-fashioned ladies, too, in stiff quilted skirts and bodices of dazzling brocade.

But as to the great lady, she died out with the dignified splendor of the last century, with powder, patches, high-heeled slippers, and stiff bodices with a delta stomacher of bows.

Before the queen, and on the same platform, were seated, in two rows, twelve duchesses or countesses, wearing ermine surcoats, bodices, robes, and circlets,--that is to say, the coronets of duchesses and countesses.