noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
palace revolution
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He deposed his father in a palace coup.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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On these rest great palaces , temples and storehouses forming an intricate network of canals.
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Naturally, a great palace required a suitable environment.
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Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing.
imperial
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From an early date the imperial palaces at Constantinople incorporated decorative schemes that emphasized and glorified imperial power and dominion.
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When we drive by the front of her property, some one points out where the imperial palace once stood.
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The remains of Barbarossa's imperial palace at Gelnhausen.
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A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes, public bathhouses and imperial palaces .
old
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A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace .
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She was alive, but in a state of shock, in an old tsarist palace near St Petersburg.
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It's really a pretty sight, captain, built of Tennessee marble like one of those old palaces in Florence.
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He sent for his wife and their three children, who took up residence with him in the old palace .
presidential
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Although she grew up in the country's presidential palaces , Megawati displayed no interest in politics until she was 40.
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They left telephone lines at the presidential palace intact, allowing Diem to appeal to loyal units to rescue him.
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At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.
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It was university women like these who surged into the streets in front of the presidential palace in Algiers to demand democracy.
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It had also claimed responsibility for blasts near the presidential palace and government buildings last month.
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He was welcomed in boardrooms and presidential palaces everywhere as the spokesman of worldwide Diaspora Jewry.
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Kabila's survival skills served him well in exile, but deserted him once he had moved into the presidential palace .
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He closeted himself in the cavernous, Renaissanceinspired presidential palace in downtown Lima, where armored military vehicles stood guard Friday.
royal
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It's famous for royal palaces , wonderful art galleries, stunning architecture and even its seaside.
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D., a curiously grim old Buddhist saint and sage known as Bodhidharma, who immediately proceeded to the royal palace .
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Windsor all over again A ROYAL palace erupted in flames early yesterday, exactly a week after the Windsor Castle blaze.
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Others had been imprisoned following an attack on the royal palace at Skhirat, near Rabat, in 1971.
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At Kaiserslauten he built a royal palace of red stone on a lavish scale.
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As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces .
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Author A N Wilson has detailed the benefits that would be gained by handing over the royal palaces to a republican government.
■ NOUN
compound
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She knew the meeting place; the pool in the little park on the south side of the palace compound .
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The family also live in the palace compound .
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It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound .
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By the eighth hour, all the Medjays sent to the palace compound were back.
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It was a place for the very rich, indirectly managed by the priesthood, within the walls of the palace compound .
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Merymose clearly had orders to ignore any trail that led to the palace compound .
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He was some one from the palace compound .
coup
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A staunch anti-communist, Craxi became party secretary in 1976 after a palace coup .
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There are just palace coups , poisonings, and back-room deals.
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Had a palace coup , got coach fired, then started winning.
garden
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One vacation she was given a holiday job in the palace gardens , pricking out marigolds.
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The King had invited me to enter it, so I stepped over the surrounding wall into the palace garden .
■ VERB
build
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Eventually, they would have built the big marble palaces anyway.
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It was when he was building his new palace - perhaps you've seen it?
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Leaders did not build palaces for themselves; that was for oriental despots.
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At Kaiserslauten he built a royal palace of red stone on a lavish scale.
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First he outfitted himself royally and then built a marvelous palace and staffed it fully.
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He is said to have built his palace next to a beautiful lake, now called Emperor's Lake.
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It is able to build a palace out of a ruin; it is the shaping spirit of your narrative.
leave
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We left the palace and parted from the Hobbs.
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By the end of the 18C the Kinský family had left and the palace became a gymnasium which educated Kafka among others.
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As a matter of course they checked the rest of the disused area before leaving the palace .
live
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The family also live in the palace compound.
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The pharaohs lived in mud palaces but were buried in monumental stone edifices.
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He had lived in castles and palaces , and been attended by courtiers, soldiers and valets.
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She loved her daughter-in-law, and she lived in the palace with the couple.
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Her name was Gayelette, and she lived in a handsome palace built from great rocks of ruby.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Palace
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If you visit England, you can go see Buckingham Palace .
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The nobles of Florence built splendid palaces.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After an hour-long meeting in the presidential palace , a hangdog Mr Cossiga announced that he and Mr Andreotti were in full agreement.
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As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces.
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Begun 1, 200 years ago, the capital grew over the centuries to many hundreds of temples and palaces.
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Orestes and Pylades were to go to the palace claiming to he the bearers of a message that Orestes had died.
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The rugged peaks dominate as you enter the palace , only to give way visually to their more accessible counterparts.
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The Stroganov, like the other two palaces, needs a great deal of money for restoration and maintenance.
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The two cars swing out of the palace gates, and disappear down the avenue.