I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a parting gift (= a gift that you give someone when you leave/say goodbye )
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She brought him a parting gift.
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the parting of clouds
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I owe it to Victoria to lend some retrospective weight to our parting .
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It was grief-stricken Abigail who made the final parting gesture.
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Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting , with its limited steps.
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Not surprisingly it was Margaret who felt the parting most.
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She will dread the thought of that final parting , which must come in time.
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So many meetings and partings must have taken place beneath his roof, so many dark plots hatched between his hospitable walls.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gift
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Any chance he had had of giving Meik a parting gift had slipped away.
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Right: Jeff Lowe receives a parting gift from Chris Bonington.
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And every couple receives a case of Lygon Arms' dry white wine or claret as a parting gift .
shot
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As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation, your parting shot needs to be powerful.
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It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot .
word
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Azaire's parting words filled his head.
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Sometimes she remembered Thomas's parting words to her and thought that perhaps she was indeed something of an innocent.
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We also find something close to the marked language characteristic of fabliaux in Dame Sirith's parting words to Wilekin.
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I walked home on air across the Esplanade des Invalides and bored everyone with his parting words for weeks afterwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Azaire's parting words filled his head.
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Escort the interviewee at least to the door, again the behaviour at the parting point can be significant.
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Even if he did politely turn down Branson's parting offer of a seat on Virgin's inaugural flight - for obvious reasons.
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Giving the still busy Josh a parting wave, the two of them started back.
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Harriet sensed that the girl's parting remarks had not been unpremeditated.
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Her parting exchange with Rain had been less than friendly.
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It is a paradox upon which a Tory may perhaps be permitted one parting reflexion.