noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cloth nappy (= one made of cloth, that you can wash and use again )
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New cloth nappies are easily washable.
cloth cap
cotton cloth/fabric
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cotton cloth from India
drop cloth
ground cloth
tea cloth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Nor were the crowd to be denied, for they tore the black baize cloth to shreds in their scramble for souvenirs.
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The altar, without flowers, is draped with a black cloth .
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The moon, a nail clipping on a black cloth , rises and as abruptly sets.
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Over eight miles of black cloth were sold in one day.
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He was wearing a decent black cloth lounge suit, and had no intentions of changing his mode of attire.
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Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man's head.
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How much black cloth have you?
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A wide pancake shaped black cloth hat with a huge brim rolled back on one side adorned his dark hair.
blue
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Each elephant is caparisoned in glittering gold, red, silver or blue cloth , studded with brilliants and lit with lamps.
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The kitchen door opened a crack and a servant, her head bound tightly in blue cloth , peeked into the room.
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Perhaps a long blue cloth laid down the middle of the hall represents a river - itself an important boundary.
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I stopped with my needle half way through the rough blue cloth .
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He lighted a lamp whose glow shone blue through the cloth wall and threw huge windmill shadows among the rafters.
clean
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Shake the bottle well, apply with a clean cloth and polish with a soft duster.
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Line colander with clean piece of cloth and pour yogurt into it.
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Leave blisters alone, just loosely cover everything with a clean dry cloth and call the doctor.
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Apply it over the boards with a roller, wait a few seconds, then wipe it up with a clean cloth .
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Sweep off loose debris with a clean loosely folded cloth or a soft brush. 2.
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Intermediate rinse-Rinse with fresh hot water and a clean cloth , wring and dry to a damp finish 4.
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The filler is rubbed hard across the surface of the wood, wiping off the surplus filler with a clean cloth .
damp
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Wipe with a damp cloth and grill them, or top each one with a spoonful of stuffing, then bake.
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Wipe area with a clean, damp cloth and dry.
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We used a tin of powder, a damp cloth and plenty of energy.
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Wipe off residue with a damp cloth .
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Continue rolling out all the rounds, covering them with a damp cloth . 5.
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I bathed his forehead with a damp cloth and took his temperature as he slept.
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A gentle wipe with a damp cloth is the safest course of action.
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Rub spots with an equal amount of toothpaste and baking soda on a damp cotton cloth .
dark
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Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth .
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He wore a heavy cloak of dark cloth that came down to his ankles.
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Now she keeps it in her bedside table, treasuring the heavy dark green cloth , the fine embroidery of the badges.
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The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth .
fine
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Stem stitch which would be fine on cloth tends to get hidden on knitted fabric.
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Strain the shrimp water into a container through a clean handkerchief or fine muslin cloth .
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There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
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Experiments over the centuries resulted in the predominance of the Cheviot breed with a fleece eminently suitable for finer grades of cloth .
green
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Now she keeps it in her bedside table, treasuring the heavy dark green cloth , the fine embroidery of the badges.
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The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth .
old
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One is now face down in the corner, snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths .
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She had pulled out her rosary from the old cloth bag she carried, and began to pray.
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He strode into the room and picking up the kettle with an old cloth he proceeded to make a pot of tea.
red
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It is constructed from eagle feathers, horse-hair, red cloth , ermine pendants, buffalo-horn strips, beadwork and brass bells.
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The buffalo and elk hide are decorated with red cloth and beads, sewn with a sinew.
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Apart from that, only a notebook covered in red cloth and a large brown envelope.
soft
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Polishing with a soft cloth will bring the surface back to life.
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The front grille and the chrome hub caps gleamed, because he polished them every evening with a soft chamois cloth .
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Allow to dry overnight, then buff with a soft cloth .
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Dab a small amount of the paste on to a soft cloth and rub keys.
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And it's worth remembering to carry the nuts in a soft cloth bag and not a rustling plastic one.
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It was a softer cloth , better fitting.
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Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
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Clean the outside of the cabinet with warm soapy water and a soft cloth , or use a food-safe stainless steel cleaner.
white
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If the carpet is slightly soiled get an absorbent white cloth , a quality shampoo and warm water.
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He picked up my white cloth hat and fastened it to my hair with a hatpin.
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There were tables with white cloths and chicken, rice, raksi, sweets - everything.
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She dropped the white silk cloth in my lap.
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A white cloth was spread on the table, homemade bread and jam, a fresh apple tart.
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A round table was covered with a white linen cloth and glistening silverware.
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Guido continued to watch her, toying with the salt cellar, his long tanned fingers very dark against the white cloth .
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Then I laid the album down in its center and wrapped it in the white cloth .
woollen
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Shearmen, who cut the pile to finish woollen cloth , were similarly paid.
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Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth .
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Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away.
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Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth .
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It is often found near old mills where the extract was used for washing the woollen cloth produced there.
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The values of the raw wool and the woollen cloth are included in the value of the coat.
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Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth .
woven
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They controlled this cottage industry by buying, selling, transporting and exchanging raw wool, spun yam and woven cloth .
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In essence, Tait &038; Style designs are made by laying strands of wool and teased-out flax on to woven cloth .
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Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth .
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Sekers Service Supreme Breaking all records, Sekers supplied a customer with specially woven cloth in an amazingly short time.
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Spun wool and woven cloth would be displayed for their inspection.
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His name was derived from his habit of wearing a blue hood of coarsely woven cloth which masked his face.
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The lay brothers brought the fleeces to hamlet and village and collected the spun yarn and woven cloth from the workers.
■ NOUN
altar
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Some one had hung up all these colourful banners, and altar cloths , and pictures of knights and castles.
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Aren't these lovely altar cloths and tapestries?
cap
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Whistler stuck red and green feathers into his cloth cap and then forgot to take them off.
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A tall man in a cloth cap came after, hurrying to catch them up.
coat
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She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar.
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She wore her good, black, cloth coat and her neatly darned cloth gloves and her sturdy, serviceable laced-up shoes.
cotton
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If you're feeling really adventurous try making your own flags using dowelling and cotton cloth or strong paper.
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Rub spots with an equal amount of toothpaste and baking soda on a damp cotton cloth .
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You need some tiny scraps of cotton cloth , some clean, firm glue and a small damp cloth.
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Smooth over lightly with a soft cotton cloth instead, applying even pressure, but not flattening patterns.
drop
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The corpses are carried out on pallets, the drop cloths and sacks removed and folded for use next time.
export
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He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp.
industry
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Much of the long-distance trade was in commodities connected with the cloth industry , notably dyestuffs such as woad and alum.
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Here stand the early sixteenth-century timbered Guildhall, now a museum to 700 years of the cloth industry .
linen
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The silver, Victorian and heavy to the hand, gleamed on the cream linen cloth .
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A round table was covered with a white linen cloth and glistening silverware.
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Athelstan called the girl back and small, fresh white loaves, wrapped in a linen cloth , were immediately served.
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At her feet were placed the linen cloths and veils which were used to collect her blood.
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New: meal service in Royal Class features sumptuous season specialties served in fine china and crisp linen cloths .
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Thérèse, armed with a thin red and white linen cloth , dried, polished, sorted.
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A linen cloth was draped over the young man's face.
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Soon the Belfast factory owners changed to making linen cloth .
manufacture
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By 1850, papermaking had ceased, Clutterbuck re-converting the mill for cloth manufacture .
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The patrons of all this art were merchants in the thirteenth century, who profited from cloth manufacture .
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This was the last bastion of the Hooper empire, cloth manufacture ending in 1934.
merchant
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Born the son of a wealthy cloth merchant , Francis lived a lavish and irresponsible life.
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An ugly church, monstrous and vulgar as the cloth merchants who had built it.
mill
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Henceforth the Painswick cloth mills gradually closed in the face of competition.
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By 1729, it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach.
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As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation, may it long continue.
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Some cloth mills were demolished and others were converted for alternative uses.
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Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
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A cloth mill for many years, it was converted to corn.
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It had its own brickworks, cloth mill and farms, and was largely self-sufficient.
silk
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The altar was built of orange boxes, covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore.
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She dropped the white silk cloth in my lap.
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Perkin was so excited that he immediately stained some silk cloth a striking purple.
table
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She stood staring at the yellow-flowered table cloth , as phrases formed and reformed inside her head, but she said nothing.
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The lantern flames knelt, the table cloth fluttered.
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Carpet tiles: Rearranging and combining in different patterns and shapes. Table cloth: Covering surface.
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Or an infinity of channels coming from tiny speakers woven into the table cloth ?
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All the plate was of heavy gold and the table cloths were silken, perfumed sheets hung heavy with gold embroidery.
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Use pretty table cloths and napkins.
tea
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Groom these ticklish areas with a stable rubber, tea cloth or your hand and work at it gently.
trade
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This and its tributaries, helped to create a thriving cloth trade in Painswick.
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The cloth trade expanded up to around 1830.
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Perhaps surprisingly, there is little evidence of the cloth trade in the parish at all.
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This formerly powered a number of mills, involved in some way with the cloth trade .
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Millbottom has been in and out of the cloth trade and was subsequently turned over to other uses.
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By this time, Woodchester Mill, like so many others, had left the cloth trade and stood empty.
■ VERB
cover
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The table was covered with a spotless cloth .
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They sat at a round table covered with a lace cloth .
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She showed me how to cover the cloth with an embroidery stitch which finally created a small, neat, round button.
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Along the right wall were two card tables pushed together, covered with white paper cloths for serving refreshments.
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Give them, still covered by the cloth , repeated thumps with a heavy kitchen implement to crack them slightly.
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There was a man with a yellow beard carrying a basket of hot beans covered with a cloth .
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A couple of the Uberwald people were ambling along the corridor beyond, carrying something covered in a cloth .
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The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth .
cut
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Working quickly, he used his knife to cut strips of cloth from the man's clothing.
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Read in studio With little sign that the recession is lifting people are having to cut their cloth accordingly.
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When they got it all home, the honeycombs were cut and drained through cloth into jars.
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Viktor Chernomyrdin, the prime minister, is cut from similar cloth .
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You have to cut your cloth , as the saying goes.
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He wore an immaculately tailored three-piece suit, cut from a cloth of apricot cream.
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For instance, lasers could cut cloth into small segments.
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If I cut according to my cloth and didn't get excited at around thirty I would find myself miraculously Mister-Righted.
drape
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It was draped with a black cloth and embroidered with a gold pentagram.
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The altar, without flowers, is draped with a black cloth .
hold
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The air holds moisture like a cloth .
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Let sit for a few minutes; hold cloth under cold running water.
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She was followed by the Sri Lankan who held a pile of cloth .
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He held a cloth to the wound that soaked his shirt with blood.
lay
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On her return she laid the cloth , collected the knives and plates, sounded the gong for breakfast.
make
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This was clearly reflected in the number of workers and mills engaged in making cloth .
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I felt the material again and again, wondering if in the United States everybody wore clothes made of such beautiful cloth .
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It was made of cloth , and, as printed on the cover, was about three millimetres long.
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Granger's Mapdry A spray-on treatment which makes paper and cloth maps water-repellent and to some degree oil-repellent.
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If you have made cloth with quite a coarsely textured yarn then the resulting quality is possibly rather stiff.
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Crombies were skimpy Chesterfields and I never knew a kid to have one made out of real Crombie cloth .
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Hunt coats are made of a heavy cloth called Melton which is almost waterproof, and very warm.
produce
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This mechanisation helped the skilled workers to increase production rapidly and to produce the cloth more cheaply.
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I don't care if it costs a packet! Produce the cloth .
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The mill uses the raw wool to produce cloth which it sells to a coat factory for £21.
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It continued to produce cloth for some time until it closed.
pull
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He pulled the cloth away and Jenna made no sound at all although her cheeks went quite pale.
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Jesse straddled the body and pulled the cloth away from the back and slashed it and let it part.
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He pulled the cloth of the screens aside and peered into the dimness.
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Skin pulled aside as though cloth napkins off loaves of bread.
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Back at his hut he pulls aside a cloth and points to his wife.
put
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Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man's head.
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They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer.
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People had piled the fallen stones into the shape of an altar, and had put a white lace-edged cloth on top.
remove
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We then removed the funeral cloths , lifted the gauze veils and stared down at the royal corpse.
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Then he paused, made sure I was looking, before gravely he removed the cloth .
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Fen removed the cloth and peered closely at her head.
spread
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The fire caught and spread across the ceremonial cloth .
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He placed the hamper on the ground, spread a cloth .
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Every time you work with the beetles spread a cloth or a large sheet of white paper on the table.
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Or the chauffeur, walking ahead, carried the hamper, spread the cloth , returned to the car.
use
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If you're feeling really adventurous try making your own flags using dowelling and cotton cloth or strong paper.
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I tried to free it, using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase.
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What I gather from the photo reproduced in Il Giornale dell'Arte is that my sin consists of using hanging cloths .
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He had a sudden vision of the looms which were used to weave cloth being powered by such machines.
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Of course, on cold surfaces, steam condenses into water so use a cloth to wipe away dirt and grease.
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Main-clean: Wash with hot detergent solution applied using a cloth .
wear
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He was wearing a decent black cloth lounge suit, and had no intentions of changing his mode of attire.
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She, too, wears a cloth over her head to protect it from the sun.
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During the normal in-flight routine the crew wore Teflon cloth flight coveralls over the long johns.
wrap
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I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance.
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A dummy made of a diving suit, sitting in a wheelchair and wrapped with cloth was stuck with safety pins.
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She had it wrapped in a cloth and hidden in her dress, next to her bosom.
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The loose trimmings I wrap in cloth to bury under you.
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Unfortunately, their record appears to have been wrapped in thick cloth while being records; it is muffled as anything.
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When the record on the box finished, the girls from the cage climbed down and wrapped some sequined cloth around themselves.
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It was a parcel wrapped in oil cloth .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut your coat according to your cloth
man of God/man of the cloth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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cloth napkins
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Dry the fruit thoroughly with a dish cloth .
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Put the bread dough in a bowl, and cover it with a damp cloth .
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She ran her eye over the rolls of brightly-coloured cloth displayed on the stall.
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The main trade was the production of woollen cloth .
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These pants are made with the finest wool cloth .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each gets a final polish with his cloth , and he grins into them as if they were mirrors.
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From its mouth hung a strip of bright cloth .
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He placed the hamper on the ground, spread a cloth .
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How much black cloth have you?
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They controlled this cottage industry by buying, selling, transporting and exchanging raw wool, spun yam and woven cloth .
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Turner is not cut from that same bolt of cloth .
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Under it was cloth and under that a thin cake of wax.
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Wipe the interior of the machine and dry thoroughly with a disinfectant impregnated cloth or disposable paper towel. 4.