• black costume without relief

• pomp and panoply

• warpaint

• academic costume

• tinsel

• gala, honorary

• arabesque, fancy, fine, gilded, ornate, picked, stately, tricksy

• preen

• to adorn, to beautify, to bedeck, to deck, to decorate, to embellish, to emblazon, to embroider, to garnish, to gild, to gild, gilt, to grace, to ornament, to set out, to stud, to trim, to vandyke

• to set, set

• chimney-piece

• shrine

• accoutrement, accoutrements, trappings

• to be in full rig

• chimney-piece

• florid, fussy

• to feather

• to fur

• to jewel

• to flounce

• to festoon, to garland