She had no fine dress in which to clothe her, nor, indeed, would there have been time to don it.
She was wearing a fine black dress with a drawn collar and a split down the front.
One day, about a week later, the princess put on her finest dress, and went to pay him a visit.
She wanted a fine black dress to wear to the funeral-the finest available.
Nobody ever gave me money for fine dresses and fancy hats.
Did she understand when he told her the dress was a very fine dress?
What was the finest dress that miserable woman had possessed?
This is the finest dress I've ever seen, and you wish him to show us something better?
He was, moreover, able to buy his wife a fine new dress, the first she had had for years.
"They say that maybe I have too fine dresses for a prime minister," she said with a laugh.