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Has there ever been a more beautiful autumn than the one now on the wane in New York City, with our parks still looking like cloth-of-gold, and flocks of southbound geese calling over our rivers?
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2015
In a famous sixth century A.D. mosaic power portrait, Justinian, emperor of Byzantium, looks almost architectural in his cloak of heavy silk and cloth-of-gold.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
Guests at imperial functions were expected to wear cloth-of-gold outfits, preferably sewn with gems.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2010
Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the council table, Queen Cersei shimmered in a cloth-of-gold gown slashed in burgundy velvet, while beside her Varys fussed and simpered in a lilac brocade.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Over this he will wear the Imperial Mantle, made of cloth of gold and originally produced for the coronation of George IV in 1821.
From Reuters ● May 1, 2023
Made of cloth of gold, it is embellished with motifs including fleur-de-lis, as well as imperial eagles, and national floral emblems of red-pink roses, blue thistles and green shamrocks.
From BBC ● May 1, 2023
In recent coronations the high-backed gothic chair has been left uncovered, but he says in the Tudor and Stuart eras it would have been covered by a lavish cloth of gold.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2023
“Around his shoulders was a cape lined in cloth of gold, its collar faced with scarlet. It was anything you want to call it, gaudy, vulgar, magnificent.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2017
And far back, under a huge tent of silk and brocade and cloth of gold, shining with a weird, otherworldly light, was Ghohg, being rolled across the desert on a gilded platform.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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