This representation of rich textiles and fabrics served to heighten the illusion of the grandeur, the splendour and the power of the king.
There, before her preferred audience of assembled lords, gentlemen, ladies and others, the wedding ceremonials were played out with maximum splendour and magnificence.
Similar concerns of fashion and splendour influenced the construction of trading and market halls and even factories.
Such pecuniary remuneration should accompany it, as would enable the person holding the rank to support it with dignity and splendour.
He was so impressed by its splendour that he hurried back home and returned with his wife and son to worship the image together.
Here the canons lived in comfort and even a certain splendour, along with their servants and sometimes their relatives.
No one realised the splendour of terracing the city down to the water.
Local traffic increased enormously, crowding our old streets, cluttering and destroying the splendour of the monumental squares.
