There she stood, with that wedding-dress of white moire antique a-sweeping down her tall figure, and lying behind her like ridges of snow on the carpet.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
She generally dresses in moire antique, and is lofty in her manners.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
There was a hush when the three ladies with veils on their heads went up the stairs, and a greater hush when they came down again-Mrs. Judge Miller, splendid in green moire-antique, with diamonds in her ears, while Marcia Fenton and Ella Backus figured in white tarletan, one with trimmings of blue, the other with trimmings of pink, and both with waists so much lower than Ethelyn's that Mrs. Markham thought the latter very decent by comparison.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes