stoles's Usage Examples:

Skins of a pale bluish tone are generally used in their natural state for stoles, boas and muffs, but the less clear coloured skins are dyed in beautiful shades similar in density to the dark and valuable sables from Russia, and are the most effective skins that can be purchased at a reasonable price.

If the colour were less motley and the joins between the skins could be made less noticeable, it would be largely in demand for stoles, ties and muffs.

Their fur is pretty, warm and as yet inexpensive, and is useful for rugs, coat linings, stoles, muffs, trimmings and perambulator aprons.

The best are the pale bluish greys, and are chiefly used for ladies' coats, stoles, muffs and hats.

They are excellent for men's coat linings and the outside of ladies' coats, for stoles, muffs, collars and cuffs.

It used to be said that he was in great straits, and the story went (though, as far as Boileau is concerned, it has been invalidated), that at last Boileau, hearing of this, went to the king and offered to resign his own pension if there were not money enough for Corneille, and that Louis sent the aged poet two hundred pistoles.

The flanks are usually cut off and made into muffs and stoles.

The fur is excellent for stoles, boas, collars, cuffs, muffs and trimmings.

The very finest skins are chiefly used for stoles and muffs, and the general run for coachmen's capes and carriage rugs, which are very handsome when the tails, which are marked with rings of dark and light fur alternately, are left on.

Its use was furiously assailed by the extremer Reformers but, in spite of their efforts, was retained by Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity, and enforced by the advertisements and injunctions issued under her authority, which ordered the "massing vestments" - chasubles, albs, stoles and the like - to be destroyed.

Fringes, tassels, little bells and the like were used as decorations of the ends of stoles at least as early as the 9th century; but crosses in the middle and at the ends were rarely added during the middle ages.

Later, it was often the habit to embroider on Greek diaconal stoles the words AFIOz Afioe Ai'Ioe.

The usual material of medieval stoles was silk, and the better ones were embroidered with silk, gold thread, pearls, 'c.

Synonyms:

scarf,

Antonyms:

disjoin,