Mantles are now dark blue and lined with white taffeta.

Historians have found no record of a service, but the Lord Treasurer authorized 54 shillings for white taffeta "to the Princess's baptism."

A second unseen coin plonked, and the wooden Madonna whirred round once more, a gleam of white taffeta piercing the massive walls.

Overlapping squares of white taffeta, cut to resemble feathers, fluttered on a full skirt.

Mrs. Alfred, he noted, had got on her new flowered black and white taffeta.

The mantle is lined with white taffeta; it is tied with green and gold tassels.

They covered an ugly patch of another ceiling with three yards of white taffeta encircled with more bunches of grapes.

The bedroom is swathed in 500 yards of white taffeta that masks the peeling walls with pleated glamour.

Then an angel dressed in white taffeta appears above the stable and beckons to a half-dozen shepherds and townspeople.

Lanie, in white taffeta and sheer veil, stood fifty feet away, smiling calmly.