noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dressing gown
dressing room
dressing table
French dressing
power dressing
salad dressing
window dressing
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All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing – the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gown
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He put on his dressing gown and opened the bedroom door.
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Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast.
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He looked boyish, almost vulnerable, in the familiar corded dressing gown .
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She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas.
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The dressing gown fell to the carpet.
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Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door.
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She got out of bed, slipped on her dressing gown and tiptoed to the window.
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A silk dressing gown that cost £450, for a dying friend who wanted one passionately.
power
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And she is power dressing , wearing beautifully-cut, expensive clothes.
room
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This was actually smaller than the dressing room but was richly furnished and lit by a large crystal chandelier.
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They charged into the other dressing rooms , gabbling as they started a quick change for another number.
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Jim Magilton thumped one home and in the dressing room .
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The smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke spilled into the back-stage corridors as we groped along in search of my dressing room .
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Hardened professionals were disgusted by the so-called dressing rooms .
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Although I am 40 and from a different age group, I actually enjoy his company in the dressing room .
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I shared a dressing room with Sean Connery.
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I remember myself calling at his dressing room during the run of Pieces of Eight.
salad
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Basic vinaigrette Vinaigrette is a simple salad dressing of oil and vinegar.
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She wants to make her own flavored olive oil with garlic to use for cooking, salad dressings and such.
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Bordeaux mustard is especially good in salad dressings .
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Fabio raised it, ironically, but Sergio was already back in the kitchen, doing something officious with the salad dressing .
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Plump red tomatoes, crisp green salads fresh with the bite of radish, spring onion and a trickle of salad dressing .
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Remember how the cool salad dressing ran smoothly over the crunchy lettuce.
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Hellmann's have introduced five new salad dressings to tickle our tastebuds which compare favourably calorie-wise with lower calorie mayonnaise.
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All sauces, mayonnaise and salad dressings , creamed soups and cheese-containing concoctions should be considered highly suspect sources of excess calories.
table
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All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers.
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I left it on her dressing table with a note.
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Elinor read the cards from two identical large vases of lilies which took up all the space on the dressing table .
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Beneath this mirror stood Miranda's surprisingly feminine dressing table , skirted in spotted white muslin frills.
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Even the few pots of make-up on the blue-flowered dressing table seemed to be standing to attention.
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His wife liked little trinkets for her dressing table .
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A vast wardrobe in walnut, a chest of drawers, a tall-boy and a dressing table with a swing mirror.
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She went to the dressing table .
window
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It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards, but it is.
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We think that a couple of buy-outs will be allowed to succeed as a form of window dressing .
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Hence the unmarked grave; still part of the window dressing .
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The proposal seems no more than a window dressing exercise.
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Granted some of the images are a little sanitised, but the good intentions can be clearly read through the window dressing .
■ VERB
change
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Mention the sebaceous secretions that make it necessary to change the dressings every twelve hours. 4.
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The community or district nurses provide practical nursing services such as bathing and changing dressings .
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Examples: How can we change this patient's dressing without risking infection?
come
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When it comes to dressing , she shows chameleon-like tendencies.
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He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting, dressed and ready for the dinner party.
pull
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Then she pulled off her maroon-silk dressing gown sash and swiftly tied his right arm to the headboard.
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Careful not to wake Josh in the back room, Clare pulled on her dressing gown.
put
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He put on his dressing gown and opened the bedroom door.
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She put them in the dressing table drawer with the belt and then pulled on the new silk nightdress.
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They put a temporary dressing on his cut nose and his wife puts a bobble hat on his head.
wear
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She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas.
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He was wearing his black dressing gown again.
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She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
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But even if she's up, she ain't dressed properly - she just wears her dressing gown.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Change the dressing twice a day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had a bad cold and was shivering inside his dressing gown.
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He prescribed the appropriate cleaning agents and dressings as required.
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I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription.
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It is built of the typical pale Yorkshire brick with local stone dressings.
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Most people also underestimate the calories provided by fatty foods and fat-containing sauces and dressings.
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They charged into the other dressing rooms, gabbling as they started a quick change for another number.
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Very tasty as salad, lemon dressing .
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When they unplugged his dressings, fluid leapt from his flesh like some victorious spirit that had possessed him.