Galloons

Right Concentration: Ten bushels of dried corn (ground to meal) to nine gallons of water to half a bushel of barley to two galloons of hops. ❋ Skzbrust (2009)

Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Among the audience there was a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. Geborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Working with the English couturier Worth, she tweaked the passementeries, galloons, and fringes on her dresses and drove the ladies mad. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

The chamber door opened quickly then, and there was Louis XVI, already fat, pretending to be asleep on a state bed, in a long crimson waistcoat trimmed with gold galloons, his shirt open where he was to be anointed with the holy ampula. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)

In fact, the _clavi_ were purple galloons, with which the Romans bordered the fore part of the tunic, on both sides, and when drawn close together, they formed an ornament in the middle of the vestment. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)

The broad galloons made the _laticlave_, and the narrow the _angusticlave_. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)

And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, -- what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons, what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services! ❋ Unknown (1918)

The principal industries are ship-building, silk-spinning, galloons and laces, glass (Murano), objects of art. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Could this civilian not comprehend that a commanding general really commanded, was really a general, just in times of war, while in times of peace he was like a strict teacher in galloons, an old duffer who occasionally shouted himself hoarse out of pure ennui? ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

The galloons of your uniform scratched my cheek, but it is so pleasant. ❋ Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1895)

The stranger was flamboyantly dressed: skin-tight pantaloons, fastened all up and down the leg with round silver buttons; yellow boots with heels high as a girl's, set off with silver spurs; a very short coat faced with galloons of gold, and a very broad-brimmed and very high-crowned sombrero, on which the silver braid alone was worth the price of a good horse. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

At the same instant she felt a pair of arms with galloons lift her up as if she were ❋ Benito P��rez Gald��s (1881)

He rode a very noble white horse and wore a Polish kurtka of light blue velvet which reached down to the knees, embroidered with golden lace, dark red mameluke pantaloons with golden galloons, white gauntlets and a three-cornered general's hat with white plumes; the saddle was of red velvet and a caparison of the same stuff, all embroidered with gold. ❋ Achilles Rose (1877)

"You are welcome, M. Passajon," said he, and taking my cap with silver galloons which, according to the fashion, I had kept in my right hand while making my entry, he gave it to a gigantic negro in red and gold livery. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)