noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
grey
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In his grey flannels and blue blazer-his full sovereign ring-Bob was the opposite of my father.
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Both were wearing grey flannel trousers and pale beige or fawn linen jackets.
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He still wore the grey flannel trousers, white shirt and maroon pullover of his school, but his feet were bare.
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He was neatly dressed in his grey flannel school suit, as if it was an ordinary day.
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Wearing a new sports jacket and grey flannels under his open raincoat.
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Lawrence had already changed from his City clothes into a blazer and grey flannels .
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Navy gaberdine trousers are reduced from £139 to £79 and grey flannel shirt-dresses from £159 to £99.
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Willie craned his head over the counter and watched him measuring and cutting two rolls of grey and navy flannel .
plaid
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Or drug-dealing devils in grungy plaid flannel ?
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Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt.
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I saw the muscles of his shoulders working beneath the soft plaid flannel .
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He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
■ NOUN
shirt
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He bought the kid a bigger check flannel shirt this time.
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As she was talking a man in olive-drab slacks and an open-necked flannel shirt joined her.
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He was dressed in a flannel shirt that was covered in sawdust.
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The man in the flannel shirt heads toward the door but is stopped as two young women enter.
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Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt .
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He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Around her ankle was the pinned flannel .
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How about updating the context, dressing the youths in flannels and baggy pants?
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The line surprises us, for much of the poet's work was a squeezed flannel of disenchantment.
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Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face.
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Wearing a new sports jacket and grey flannels under his open raincoat.