noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mills, Heather
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
purple
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The surrounding area is very beautiful with gentle hills, waterfalls and purple heather .
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The fields here were fringed with rowan trees, their bright red berries clashing horribly with the purple heather of late summer.
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Matching check kilts, playing in the purple heather .
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We turned left on to it, through an undulating sea of purple heather up to Golden Heights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dark, intense, semi-smiling stare, as if the sprig of white heather was not charity but compulsory.
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Billy's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts.
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His drive went low up the right side of the fairway and faded impotently into the heather .
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I wasn't myself in the heather that night.
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On the hillsides all around, the sun-dazzling orange of the bracken against the black of the heather startled the eye.
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The heather , purple now, they went into ecstasies over.
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The blade plunged on into the heather at the side of the track.
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We carried on walking northwards following sheep tracks through the heather and rock outcrops.