I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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All he needed was a sweeping black cloak ... She hauled herself back to reality.
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At one moment we see a little boy dressed in a black cloak gliding along.
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Her black cloak streamed behind her.
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The black mourning cloak butterflies are back again.
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As I said she wore a mask, and a rich black cloak with white lambswool trimmings.
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The black cloak of hair streamed now over her hips and legs.
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She flung herself from her horse and smothered the burning body with her black cloak .
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They were moving with difficulty, perhaps hampered by their long black cloaks , but they were coming downhill fast.
dark
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Night Goblins live in the tunnels and caverns beneath the mountains, and dress in black or dark cloaks and hoods.
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The brightness in them was fading as death's dark cloak slowly wrapped around her.
long
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So brave, so dashing when he swirled that long cloak around him.
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With his long blue cloak fastened across his shoulders, his injury was hidden and his height emphasised.
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He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all.
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They were moving with difficulty, perhaps hampered by their long black cloaks , but they were coming downhill fast.
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Then he felt inside his long cloak and pulled out a map.
red
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He picked up the red and white cloak and wrapped it around her shoulders, red side outwards.
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He was a fine figure of a puppet, in a red cloak and a hat with a feather.
■ VERB
pull
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He pulled his awkward cloak about his shoulders and closed his eyes, emptying his head of preoccupations.
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If you pulled an ordinary conventional cloak over it, nobody would even see it.
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A figure emerged, pulling a cloak about him.
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Felix threw himself down next to the nearest fire, and pulled his cloak tight about him.
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He pulled his cloak more firmly round his body and threaded his way through the trees.
take
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Benjamin and I hid our exasperation, took our cloaks and followed her into the snow-covered grounds.
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After you had slain the lady, you took one of her cloaks as well as the ring from her finger.
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Athelstan patted him gently, took his cloak from the house and rejoined Benedicta and Vincentius.
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Trying to take the cloak off Colley's back, he only succeeded in tearing it.
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He was pious, and Gregory even recounts a miracle worked by a thread taken from his cloak .
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Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague, and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion.
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But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it's been another string to his bow ever since.
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I took my cloak from its hook and wrapped it round me.
wear
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The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools.
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He would dress the part, even though he wore a cloak or hood.
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You are wearing a cloak such as was worn every day by the likes of your mama, your grandmama and yourself.
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Some wore cloaks clasped at the neck with huge ornamental brooches.
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He wore a heavy cloak of dark cloth that came down to his ankles.
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They like to wear the cloak of socialism because it's trendy on the international stage.
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He wore a yellow-brown silk cloak with cotton trim; his sleeves were long, extending over his hands.
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Her sight cleared slowly, and she saw she too wore a green cloak .
wrap
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Joan wrapped the sturdy cloak more closely around herself, concealing all but the lower part of her face.
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Li Yuan rose, knowing it was important, letting Master Nan wrap the cloak about his nakedness.
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Bruce stirred and wrapped his cloak firmly about him.
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We must beware of the use of ethnicity to wrap a spurious cloak of legitimacy around the speaker who invokes it.
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The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing ... what had he been playing?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After you had slain the lady, you took one of her cloaks as well as the ring from her finger.
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As I said she wore a mask, and a rich black cloak with white lambswool trimmings.
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At one moment we see a little boy dressed in a black cloak gliding along.
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Corbett gagged at the bitter-sweet smell of corruption and covered his mouth and nose with his cloak to prevent himself choking.
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Darkness threw a cloak over my strangeness, so that people let me pass with a nod or a softly called greeting.
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I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town.
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It was almost warm, and Riven hung his cloak by the saddle bow.
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The snow was begin-ning to stick to my cloak .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he has laid himself wide open to the kind of criticism that will cloak him in a dark shroud of misery.
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Blasting through the grey language that usually cloaks such matters he accuses the Fund of corruption, self-interest and deceit.
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Evening twilight soon spread over the ocean and we were cloaked in the security of darkness.
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It also ensures that the city is permanently cloaked in a stinking cloud of smoke and dust.
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Often they are cloaked in the respectability of scientific terminology or social acceptability.
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The fire crackled and cloaked my advance.
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The hills behind my house are cloaked with three separate quilts.
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Though once cloaked in the trappings of the occult, conversations with local psychics suggest a slightly more psychotherapeutic approach.