noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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A man in a wig and black robes .
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He had worked hard for the party and had earned the black robe , and he was even a pretty good lawyer.
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Although members of the community dressed alike, the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy.
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Lanier was a predator in black robes , and for that he deserves the stiff prison term he was sentenced to.
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The Archbishop stood in his traditional black robes , high hat and full bearded splendour.
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In the video she is dressed in plain black robes and a head cloth.
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I glimpsed the black robes and wondered why Southgate would be so interested in such a grisly execution.
blue
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He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots.
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He was right there in front of me, white wings and a blue robe with gold buttons.
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They wore long light blue robes and smelled of strange spices.
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I reached out my crooked arm and touched the hem of her royal blue robe and her matching cloth slippers.
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The dancers are dressed in orange and blue robes .
dark
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What was behind the dark robe and what was within the deep, all-concealing hood?
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They were the Mien, whose blue-turbaned women were swathed in dark robes accented with red wool ruffs.
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A further dark robe hid the damaged frame from view, but the face had a pull, like magnetism.
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He was wearing a dark robe , made darker by constant wear and irregular washings.
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The figures wore dark robes and carried small incense burners.
long
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He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots.
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He exulted and from the pocket of his long robe withdrew a self-powered Atomo bulb that filled the room with pearly light.
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She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen, which was belted loosely at the waist.
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It was a small man in long , black robes who turned Bishop's life around.
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That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown.
red
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The dark red and damson robes were heavy and stifling and they could not possibly be what she was looking for.
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Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe .
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The red robe they gave her there was the first bright colour she had worn.
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Several photos, tokens of thanksgiving, are attached to the red velvet robe that covers the carving.
white
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A man in a grubby white robe was in the passenger seat.
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Those who preceded us on this crossing had been swathed in white robes atop lurching camels.
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Five yards away a woman sat almost in profile, a white towelling robe easy on her shoulders.
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A golden crown adorns the head and the relic is dressed in beautiful white robes delicately and artistically embroidered with gold.
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She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen, which was belted loosely at the waist.
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He wore a white robe that he used, as he talked, to cover and uncover his bare feet.
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Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper's.
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She herself had been named as wearing a white robe - and was asked had she ever done so.
■ NOUN
buffalo
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The buffalo robes were good for keeping warm in carriages in northern cities.
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Tiredness ached in her bones, she sagged and rocked, hunched in her blanket with the buffalo robe around her feet.
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That done, the sick man and the buffalo robe were removed.
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Moses McTavish and I ducked through his tipi door and sat cross-legged on buffalo robes around the fire pit in the center.
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A wife, if she worked hard, could prepare ten buffalo robes for trade in a season.
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At the traders', one buffalo robe was worth from seven to nine cups of sugar.
silk
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Putting down her cup, she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed.
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Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe .
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She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist.
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Milly, in her white silk robe , becomes the focus of our gaze as the camera pulls back.
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He was still in a silk robe , in his office, staring dully at the grey morning beyond the windows.
towelling
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She pulled on one of the towelling robes and wandered back into the bedroom, selecting clean clothes.
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You pull a towelling robe from the back of the door and throw it at her.
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With a disconsolate sigh she stood up, slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair.
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Five yards away a woman sat almost in profile, a white towelling robe easy on her shoulders.
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By the time he had closed the door and turned into the room she had slipped the towelling robe off her shoulders.
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Presently, relaxed and generously anointed with body-lotion, she wrapped herself in a fluffy towelling robe and went back downstairs.
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Kurt Steiner in pyjamas and towelling robe , sat by the window reading.
■ VERB
dress
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Buddhist monks dressed in ochre robes lit traditional butter lamps and held a six-hour prayer vigil at a Himalayan monastery in Sikkim.
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He thought she looked like a vast boulder, dressed in a chenille robe , that some one had rolled to the door.
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A golden crown adorns the head and the relic is dressed in beautiful white robes delicately and artistically embroidered with gold.
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In the video she is dressed in plain black robes and a head cloth.
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A ghostly figure appeared, dressed in flowing robes of blue and white.
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Then Olivia and her brother, dressed in their priestly robes , pour libations into the holy well.
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Afterwards, they were washed by Taheb's body servants, and dressed in visiting robes .
pull
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You pull a towelling robe from the back of the door and throw it at her.
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She dragged her eyes away from D'Arcy, pulling her robe closed.
put
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She put on her robe , lit the candle and went on tip-toe down the back stairs and into the kitchen.
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He put on his robe and went into his own room to dress.
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He lay there a while longer, unable to relax, then got up and put on his robe .
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Brenda put on her robe and went to the end of the hall and looked out.
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Now put your robe on and come into the living room.
wear
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The angel on the right wears a robe whose tint is of this same blue, but whose intensity is less.
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Larry paced the small rooms now, drink in hand, wearing an enormous striped robe .
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Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper's.
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He wore a white robe that he used, as he talked, to cover and uncover his bare feet.
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He wore a heavy velvet robe of deepest crimson and indigo, trimmed with black fur.
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She was a tall girl, quite pretty, I thought, and she always wore a lovely kimono robe .
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He was wearing a dark robe , made darker by constant wear and irregular washings.
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On television, the emperor is wearing medieval robes , edged in gilt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kovitsky was up on the bench, in his black robes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An Arab's flowing robes and racing camels gleamed white against the ochre dirt.
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Death raced from room to room, his robe flapping.
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Each vied with others in the number of his retainers, the magnificence of his robes and accoutrements.
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Monks in saffron-colored robes are everywhere, seasoning the landscape.
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Pizzi's garb-gold lame for days and more saffron robes than at a Hare Krishna convention-seemed intrusive.
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She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist.
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The robe is a richly patterned 7-by-10-foot cotton cloth whose abstract symbols represent the powers and obligations of kingship.
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The buffalo robes were good for keeping warm in carriages in northern cities.