noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
drape
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She draped a plain white shawl round her shoulders, and walked slowly to the farm.
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She draped her shawl closely around the boy and hugged him fiercely, as if for the last time.
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You could drape a large lightweight shawl over the front of the curtain instead of this triangular drape.
wear
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A good way to cover up is to wear a cardigan or shawl over the top.
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Over the jacket she wore the inveterate shawl of cockney women.
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The women wore dark colours and shawls and even small boys looked uneasily serious in their heavy best clothes and cloth caps.
wrap
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The hills are wrapped in a shawl of pink light gradually fading into dusk.
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She wrapped her shawl around him.
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Hattie Johnson stood on the rocks, wrapped in shawls , watching Clayt riding the swells back and forth, finding nothing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And so I took my shawl down from the hook and went outside.
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He also became interested in the breeding of goats to provide wool for shawls.
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Her shawl was tightly wrapped round her head and shoulders.
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Lying inside, wrapped in a clean woollen shawl , was the smallest baby I had ever seen.
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She wrapped her shawl around him.
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The cashmere shawl hadn't been expensive.
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They gave her dolls, rings, shawls, baskets and necklaces.