noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dressing gown
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Their black gowns flowed to the floor where they were frequently trampled underfoot by passing waiters.
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She stands, twenty-three years old, in black cap and gown , a baby on her hip.
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They came up the steps with a Coptic woman in a long black gown and veil.
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But a long black evening gown will.
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It was in this room that Princesse Mathilde, a dramatic figure in a long black hostess gown , welcomed them.
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I saw a strapless black gown in the corner, a pair of stilettos discreetly hidden on the floor.
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He was wearing his black dressing gown again.
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His black gown clings, his shoes have been ruined.
blue
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She was dressed in a dark blue gown , the white veil hiding her beautiful chestnut hair.
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She met him in the hallway, in an old blue dressing gown .
bridal
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The bridal gowns were far too ornate for her taste.
green
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The emerald green gown gaped open.
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Piles of sheets and towels and faded green theatre gowns were stacked on either side.
long
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They came up the steps with a Coptic woman in a long black gown and veil.
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But a long black evening gown will.
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His mutterings might have been prayers, his long gown a monk's habit, sweeping over the rough paving.
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She was wearing a long white gown , her hair hanging down, like a crazy woman.
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It was in this room that Princesse Mathilde, a dramatic figure in a long black hostess gown , welcomed them.
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She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
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A voluptuous blonde hooker in a long white gown entered the spacious bar.
white
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They are protected from head to foot with face masks, caps and white gowns .
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She pulled one of her white ceremonial gowns over my head and yanked my arms.
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Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown .
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Jan Stafford and Maxine Kincora came in traditional white wedding gowns , lace and veils.
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A voluptuous blonde hooker in a long white gown entered the spacious bar.
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Alek brought her a cluster of early narcissus and she wore a short white gown with a grass-blade pattern.
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The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it.
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She lifted the white gown from the bed where I had thrown it, and handed it back to me.
■ NOUN
ball
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Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace.
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The inaugural ball gown was an emphatic announcement that the first lady was going to play the style game her way.
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They are in their tuxedos and ball gowns .
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No one breakfasts in ball gowns anymore, but many people still dress up for the afternoon races.
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She wore a yellow taffeta ball gown with black pumps and matching bum bag for her liver treats!
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There will not be a shortage of ball gowns and tuxes.
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The women wore ball gowns and jewels and looked like royal butterflies.
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National stores have had ball gowns shipped in from all over the country.
dressing
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He dashed out in his dressing gown and pulled the driver and passenger from the flames.
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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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Then Little Billy would slip into his dressing gown and climb on to Swan's back and off they would go.
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He pulled himself up, towelled himself dry, then slipped into his dressing gown .
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Cornelius tucked this, unopened, into a dressing gown pocket.
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She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas.
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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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The woman was wearing a man's tartan dressing gown .
evening
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My beautiful evening gowns would turn into home-made minis.
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But a long black evening gown will.
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She was wearing a tangerine evening gown and matching gloves that didn't.
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In 1935 a Valentina evening gown in pale gray silk bared the shoulders and dropped to mid-back, exposing the spine.
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The evening gown hung strangely on her one-legged pirate's body.
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Her white satin evening gown was adorned with gold scrolls and squiggles of the sort that usually decorate formal window treatments.
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Ultimately, Diana has been seen more in long, sleek, hugging and sometimes revealing evening gowns .
hospital
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In the hospital gown she seemed very young.
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His hand shook, so that soup spilled down the front of his hospital gown .
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That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown .
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Somehow they managed to get out of their clothes and into the hospital gown without revealing an inch of extra flesh.
silk
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Without ceremony she dropped her silk gown , standing naked but for her briefs and her tattoos, which were all black.
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The coast lay strangled in a beige silk gown .
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He looked gorgeous, dressed in a pink silk gown with a gold-tasselled cord round his waist.
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I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal and wearing a delicate silk gown of pure white.
wedding
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Yesterday he donned white suit and cowboy boots for the service while Lynn sported a white silk wedding gown .
■ VERB
buy
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In June 1948, just before I bought a gown , the Berlin Airlift began and continued until the autumn of 1949.
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Pinson, an attractive Defense Department executive, needs to buy a fancy gown for the first time in her life.
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Some of the girls bought gowns for an inaugural ball.
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In their minds, buying a gown poses questions more complicated than chiffon or lace.
dress
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Incidentally, why was roly-poly Roy's dressing gown tight on Frank?
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He got out of bed and put on his faded burgundy dressing gown .
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I have an obsession at the moment for pyjamas, duvets and dressing gowns .
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He was a stock irritant, an ugly man in a shabby dressing gown over a stained shirt.
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He is dressed in a gown of pale-blue, embroidered in silver and gold with astrological and alchemical symbols.
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Margarett came to him, unexpectedly, in the night, wearing a filmy dressing gown and carrying a candle.
even
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After the rehearsal the sound engineer gave me a battery pack and microphone to attach to my evening gown .
pull
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She pulled on her gown , unaware of how the thin silk clung to her still-damp skin.
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Careful not to wake Josh in the back room, Clare pulled on her dressing gown .
put
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I hang my clothes in the wardrobe and put on the plastic gown .
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I put on my double gown and a shawl and went too.
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She went into the men's robing room by mistake when she put on her gown but no one seemed to mind.
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You're told to take off your clothes and put on a gown that doesn't fit at the back.
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He put on his dressing gown and opened the bedroom door.
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I put my gown on, taking as long as I could, and walked slowly down the passage to Nonni's room.
wear
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She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas.
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Alek brought her a cluster of early narcissus and she wore a short white gown with a grass-blade pattern.
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He had deliberately sent Dana away when he must know how important it was she wear the gown designed for her.
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I recognized Rod Holloway, wearing a surgical gown .
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The bride wore a gown of ivory raw satin, with the bride and groom's initials embroidered on the train.
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All she had left was the clothes she wore , the second gown Nahum had bought her, and her wedding ring.
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She was wearing a long white gown , her hair hanging down, like a crazy woman.
wed
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You are born again, said the woman who had given me my wedding gown .
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Jan Stafford and Maxine Kincora came in traditional white wedding gowns , lace and veils.
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Handsmocked baby dresses, ballet costumes, prom dresses, bridesmaid dresses, wedding gowns , maternity party dresses.
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In second place and closing fast is Modern Bride, which has 944 pages and 1, 000 wedding gowns .
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Now dolls come with birth certificates, wedding gowns , mansions, and boyfriends.
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Buying a wedding gown is something like looking for the right mate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strapless dress/gown/bra
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She wore a dark green strapless dress with an enormous skirt.
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Susanna wore a black silk strapless dress.
town and gown
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Back to the town and gown.
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He says Morse is town and gown.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a silk evening gown
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her gown was long, emphasising her slender figure, and starkly black.
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In Lewis's day, some formality was added to the proceedings by the undergraduate's wearing a gown .
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She'd travelled light today; she'd packed no dressing gown .
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She flinched once, then started to obey, unfastening the ties at the neck of her gown with shaking fingers.
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She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her dressing gown .
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She was wearing a long white gown , her hair hanging down, like a crazy woman.
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The catalog will include roughly 50 gowns priced from $ 1, 100 to $ 2, 800.