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Her bonnet is the firmament,   The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt,   Her dimities of blue.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis

Lustrous silks and dainty dimities; embroidered muslins and heavy velvets; Patty had never seen such a sight.

From Patty's Summer Days by Wells, Carolyn

Her bonnet is the firmament,    The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt,    Her dimities of blue.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

And those delicious chintzes and dimities for our bedrooms!

From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

And if she didn't buy embroideries and dimities, she would purchase something else with it.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney