Regalia (What You Pawn I Will Redeem)
noun
Pronunciation: re-gah-lia
-Special clothes and decorations (such as a crown or scepter) for official ceremonies.
-Special clothing of a particular kind.
Context: -“But the strangest thing of all was the old powwow dance regalia I saw hanging in the window.”
-“But it sure looked like my memory of it, and it had all the same color feathers and beads that my family sewed into our powwow regalia.”
-“Because they don’t want to be perfect, because only God is perfect, Indian people sew flaws into their powwow regalia.”
-“My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia.”
-” I took my grandmother’s regalia and walked outside. I knew that solitary yellow bead was part of me. I knew I was that yellow bead in part. Outside, I wrapped myself in my grandmother’s regalia and breathed her in.”
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regalia
Example of a Regalia
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