Sprigged

So a chair was placed in front of the green cupboard, and with precision in every movement the "sprigged" dishes were gotten down. ❋ Frederick Vining Fisher (N/A)

Cicely, for all her thirteen years, looked very small, sitting there at the end of the long table, in her "sprigged" high-waisted gown, her feet in their strapped slippers perched on the rung of the high office stool. ❋ Cornelia Meigs (1928)

Men and women lounged everywhere, on everything: faded sprigged sofas and peeling painted chaise longues, spindly ladder-back chairs, stained window-seats, even on the rough plank trestle tables themselves. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Ladies were warned in their golf books from donning “mannish” attire as ties, bloomers and caps, but the majority conformed to notions of femininity and went out to play in heavy tweed skirts, straw boaters and thick, sprigged boots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They found several things which could pass for sprigged muslin in the “fancy cotton” category. ❋ Maryrobinette (2010)

After much discussion with V.B., my modiste, we decided that I would order this dress in a cream sprigged muslin. ❋ Maryrobinette (2010)

While there, I posed the sprigged linen conundrum. ❋ Maryrobinette (2010)

Bought the bed, sewn the coverlet of sprigged silk. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

Informed that the young lady was about to make her debut, Cerisette first directed their attention to a series of made-up gowns, all created in the now popular muslins with high waists, and all of them without exception, Maidie noted, in the palest of hues, whether sprigged or plain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His eyes raked me slowly from head to toe, traveling with a sort of insolent appreciation over the thin peony-sprigged cotton dress I wore, and lingering with an odd look of amusement on my legs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mrs. Baird herself was squat and easygoing, and made no objection to Frank lining her tiny rose-sprigged parlor with the dozens of books and papers with which he always traveled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After looking at several options, we have settled upon a simple cream sprigged muslin gown with a spencer jacket. ❋ Maryrobinette (2010)

Kate Dyer lay stretched out on her belly on a couch beneath the window, her red hair vivid against her sprigged green dress. ❋ Linda Buckley-Archer (2009)

I see myself wandering the woods in well worn jeans and soft sweaters, coming in from walks to hot coffee in the winter and mint-sprigged iced tea in the summer. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm so stuck in the nineteenth century with my reading at the moment I'm thinking I may purchase nine yards of sprigged muslin and run up a new gown. ❋ Unknown (2007)