Dressed in regal black and purple, with a flowery hat and an ivory fan, she was an imposing figure, the final symbol of her defeated race.

The compartment door opened, and a woman in a flowery, wide-brimmed, floppy hat came in, struggling with seemingly innumerable bags, packages, purses, and parcels.

I shall wear one of those large flowery hats the bride's mother always does..." She broke off to say to Willy, coming upstairs towards her: "Wash your hands, dear.

She thought of her own mother with her large flowery hats, her flowery dresses, her flowery parasol, her floating scarves and strings of pearls.

They manage a quick cuddle, but René sneezes from the flowery hat, that Yvette has bought for herself.

Every shows' winner won a humorous object, such as a stick of celery and a flowery hat.

When Maryam came she was wearing the flowery hat.

The women are in bright dresses, with elaborate, flowery hats that seem almost Edwardian.

She was a flabbily pretty, weakly flirtatious woman of forty-two or three, in an atrocious flowery hat.

Because that would help - a flowery hat - a summer wedding - or a velvet winter one?