I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fur coat (= made from an animal’s fur )
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In Moscow a lot of the women wear fur coats.
imitation fur/pearls/silk/leather etc (= something that looks like an expensive material but is a copy of it )
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an imitation fur coat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur .
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She could even see it in this thing, the pallor of it, the fine dust of jet black fur .
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Her sister-in-law wore canary yellow trimmed with black marten fur .
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He wore a heavy velvet robe of deepest crimson and indigo, trimmed with black fur .
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It ruffled Roland's black fur .
fake
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Plus the best and most affordable selection of fake fur cushions in town - zebra, leopard, tiger among others.
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She was a vision in a pink fake fur Todd Oldham jacket.
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My first successes were in fake fur - we had one each.
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A vest of fake fur like the one she had made for Jill when she was small?
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But for the ultimate indulgence this winter, splash out on one of the new fake furs .
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Until my first New York winter rain, when the fake fur matted around my neck, wrists and knees.
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It was a tiny fluffy one, a Christmas present, slightly see-through and trimmed with fake fur .
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This year their major bow to realness has been replacing fake fur with genuine dead pelts.
grey
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Silver grey costume, grey suede shoes and over it all a grey fur coat.
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And Sophia said she had a grey squirrel fur coat too.
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She was a plump mole only a little older than the visitor, but with warm motherly eyes and pleasant grey fur .
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This one was very small with grey fur all over its body.
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Plants with grey fur wilted in pots; cobwebs hung beneath the round table, draped the lopsided chairs.
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After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building.
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A large black automobile pulled in opposite the building, and a woman in a grey fur coat got out.
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Wings and body were covered in grey fur .
soft
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The darkening path felt warm and soft as fur .
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I buried my face in the dusty, soft white fur of his stomach.
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She stroked the soft , thick fur which felt warm, though the cat was trembling.
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It was lined with soft fur and my fringed silk scarf.
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The result is a kind of knuckle-duster, a row of hard bumps hidden deceptively in the soft , dense fur .
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It would be lined with soft fur and decorated with nandina berries.
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A soft fur coverlet draped on the foot of the bed.
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For a moment Marcus remembered his cat's soft fur , the soft tickle of his breathing.
white
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In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection.
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I buried my face in the dusty, soft white fur of his stomach.
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Some rooms were covered in snow and all the animals there had white fur .
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Talent Gazette, her hair done up in sophisticated curls, her chin nestled into a glamorous touch of white fur .
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Its white fur looked unnatural, bleached on purpose, for a disguise.
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Take the example of a polar bear, which is equipped with a thick coat of white fur .
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They live mostly on the forest canopy and have white fur crash helmets with black faces and black ears peeping out.
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A white fur muff, stuffed with tissue paper, was tied around the neck of the padded hanger.
■ NOUN
coat
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He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on.
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I took him from her, lay him on the fur coat and pressed his chest with my palms.
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Some women wear fur coats , others puffa jackets and boots.
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He ought to have bought her a fat fur coat .
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I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat .
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I realized that Minna was wearing an elegant new yellowish fur coat .
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Perhaps they looked a little incongruous sitting in their smart hats and fur coats , talking more loudly than anybody else.
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They bought fur coats and all that stuff.
collar
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He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf.
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She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar .
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Edusha had dolled herself up and wore a fur collar and carried a muff.
farm
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Must be an escape from a zoo, he thought, just as mink could be from fur farms .
hat
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He is an extreme nationalist, who threatens war and expansion at the drop of a fur hat .
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The driver, muffled in his fur hat , had not noticed a thing.
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A man in a fur hat , long black leather coat, white shirt and silver tie got into the carriage.
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She washed clothes and dealt in smuggled electronic goods, rabbit-fur hats , sunflower seeds, pearl necklaces and noodles.
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But beneath the cascading ringlets and whacky fur hats , there was undiluted vintage Gaultier tailoring.
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At last, as if at a secret signal, people leave off their fur hats .
trade
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The way to stop the fur trade is to alienate the customer.
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The fur trade fast became the chief business of the colonies, exceeding in importance the commerce in timber and fish.
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No market for furs equals no shops like that one, equals no fur trade , no species extinction.
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Meanwhile, the fur trade is still flourishing.
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Until recent years, leopard skins fetched high prices in the fur trade .
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He lived most of his life on Manhattan Island, and built his first fortune on the fur trade .
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Today you're ripping up the cobblestones and storming the Bastille to stop the fur trade .
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Since the fur trade was also well past its zenith, the town snoozed in a rural backwater.
trader
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He had few finances but had in his possession a letter of introduction to a fur trader called John Joseph Astor.
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The 98 wolves were brought into the country alive by fur traders .
■ VERB
stroke
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We watched as Christopher's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal's fur .
trim
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It was a tiny fluffy one, a Christmas present, slightly see-through and trimmed with fake fur .
wear
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Some women wear fur coats, others puffa jackets and boots.
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No nasty remarks about the wearing of real fur .
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I didn't want to work in a place where I couldn't wear my fur coat.
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They know that a whole bunch of famous models would rather go naked than wear fur .
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This was when everyone wore furs .
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She explained that she wore furs and her jewelry only when she traveled abroad with her husband on state visits.
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She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice.
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Tape of the scene shot by news helicopters show a distraught woman, driving a Jaguar, wearing a fur coat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high-collared/open-collared/fur-collared etc
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Furs from the far north of Canada were exchanged for cotton and other goods.
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In the hall, Mrs. Welland was putting on her fur .
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the fur industry
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There was cat fur all over the chair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally I seized his scruff, took a fistful of fur .
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He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.
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I mean the whole, blue-green ball of fur , fin, feathers.
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The darkening path felt warm and soft as fur .
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Why, how, and when does the fur change? 10.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
white-coated/fur-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The pipes and valves furred with woodchips as though by a half inch of sooty snow.