Gallooned

Hartley looked in the same direction with the two who were speaking, and his eye was caught by a Semiramis-looking person, of unusual stature and amplitude, arrayed in a sort of riding-habit, but so formed, and so looped and gallooned with lace, as made it resemble the upper tunic of a native chief. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is made of daguerreotypes blurring on their misted silver; tenebrous lithographs -- solemn façades of brick with classic white lanterns lifted against the inky smoke of a burning city; the pages of a lady's book, elegant engravings of hooped and gallooned females; and the scent of crumbled flowers. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

Hardly a woman's room, and yet feminine in its minor touches; the gallooned red velvet cushions of the Venetian armchair; the violets that from every available place shed their fresh perfume on the quiet air, a summer window box crowded with hyacinths, the wicker basket, home of a languishing Pekinese spaniel, tucked under one corner of the table. ❋ Ethel Watts Mumford (1909)

Garden, as doth the scarf of striped gauze and the shoes, gallooned with silver. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

Trousers, which had been wavering between nautical buttons and gallooned knees -- or, in the vernacular of the period, a sail three sheets in the wind and a flag at half-mast -- were the items sacrificed. ❋ Various (1880)

Indeed, an enormous bureaucracy, richly gallooned and well fed is that "idee Napoleonienne" that above all others suits the requirements of the second Bonaparte. ❋ Karl Marx (1850)

A crowd of fellows, of the best among whom all that can be said is that one knows not whence he comes -- a noisy, restless "Boheme," greedy after plunder, that crawls about in gallooned frocks with the same grotesque dignity as Soulonque's [#12 Soulonque was the negro Emperor of the short-lived negro Empire of Hayti.] ❋ Karl Marx (1850)

Reminiscences: "I remember Mozart well at the first general rehearsal, in a red furred coat and a gallooned hat, standing on the stage and giving the tempi. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Bob gave [Mary] a [galloon] for her [birthday]. ❋ Marcus Aurellus (2008)