noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a silk flower
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She wore a huge silk flower in her hair.
a silk/cotton/velvet etc dress
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Ellie chose a green silk dress.
cotton/silk/synthetic etc fabric
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printed cotton fabric
cotton/woollen/silk etc cloth
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a dress of the finest silk cloth
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
silk screen
watered silk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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A lady is sitting on a bench in the sunshine under a black silk parasol.
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He seemed to be wearing black silk stockings.
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His hair was white and powdered and long enough to be tied in a small black silk bow.
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And this guy came out and had on red and black silk and these black shiny shoes.
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Ace grimaced, reached down and hesitantly pulled aside the tattered sheet of black silk .
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The black taffeta silk ballgown was strapless and backless with a plunging, gravity-defying decolletage.
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He wore shabby clothes and shoes and a black silk scarf, always, outdoors and in.
blue
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Then, as a daring but romantic gown of navy blue silk crepe made its appearance, the moment came.
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I looked down at the light blue watered silk .
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The blue silk mortar board she wore was edged in gold lace with a gold bullion button and tassel.
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Minu covering her face with blue silk while she talks about the rights of women.
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He could see that her body was naked beneath the midnight blue silk of her robe and her scent overpowered his senses.
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Her face was framed by her Pamela bonnet, a nimbus of straw trimmed with pink ribbons and blue silk anemones.
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Chanel's royal blue silk quilted Husky with grosgrain binding and gilt buttons. 8.
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He looked extremely good this morning in his blue silk suit and splashy colorful hand-painted tie.
bright
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Her bright yellow silk dress and parasol could be seen the length of the boulevard.
cream
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This was cut from a piece of linen texture board and then backed with some cream silk .
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Lyddy interrupted her reverie with the cream silk dress laid across her arms like an offering.
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In a light cream linen suit, cream silk shirt and gold striped tie, he was alarmingly attractive.
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She had cream silk stockings and cream satin slippers with waisted heels and bows of stiff cream ribbon on the toes.
dark
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There were three men - Han, dressed in dark silks with blood-red headbands about their foreheads.
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Select ears of corn that have uniform rows of kernels and dark brown silks at the husk end.
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Long dark blue silk curtains hung at the elegant sash window overlooking the creek.
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I could see their backs gleaming, like dark blue silk .
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Ivor and Sara were there, the latter in a dark blue silk shirt.
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There was no tie, but a dark red silk scarf was tucked into the open neck of the shirt.
fine
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Designer ties and fine cotton or silk shirts complement the clothes, together with a full range of accessories including handmade Artioli shoes.
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And the fine quality silk , catching the moonlight just as Miguelito's sleeve had done ... Shelley pulled herself together.
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His hand slid up her thigh and found fine silk and lace in his way.
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Use fine thread; silk thread with silk fabrics, and synthetic thread with synthetic fabrics.
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Lifting it to her face, she discovered that it was lined in fine padded silk .
green
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She opened the case and looked with dismay at the flimsy green silk nightdress lying on top of the matching gown.
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Centre Line green silk suit, £930; yellow viscose knit turtleneck, £400; both by Gianni Versace.
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With a sigh Lais pulled the soft green silk nightdress over her nakedness.
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She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green locks a crown of jewels.
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All rooms are hung with green or crimson silk damask and the cornices, door-cases and chair-frames are all carved in gilt.
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He wears his Bible around his neck in a green silk purse.
grey
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He could see the grey ruffled silk of the sea on the left as they banked and came in towards the airport.
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He was wearing a grey business suit, an immaculate white shirt and a red and grey striped silk tie.
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Pale grey silk with pink ostrich feathers.
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The man was dressed in a white duck suit and a pale-blue silk shirt and a grey silk tie.
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I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse.
heavy
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The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk .
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Switching back the heavy yellow silk curtains, she peered out yet again.
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Her blond hair fell like heavy silk to her shoulders - that's where Susan gets her corn-gold mane, Cara thought.
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She was wearing a heavy red silk kimono with, appropriately enough, black and gold dragons embroidered all over it.
long
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Ash wore a long , rough silk shirt, and leggings.
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She looked pretty in that short leather jacket she wore with the long colorful silk scarf.
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The long silk kimono wrapped round him accentuated his height, and Persian slippers enclosed the slender feet.
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She was unsurprised to find a long silk bathrobe neither masculine nor feminine hanging on the back of the door.
pale
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She was looking at Mrs Gotobed's dress. Pale grey silk with pink ostrich feathers.
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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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It was a girl's diary, with birds and flowers painted on a pale green silk background.
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Her hair was spread all over the pillow like pale yellow silk .
pink
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The wall lights in the great stone walls were bedecked with pink silk shades.
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Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
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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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Wearing a pink silk shirt and a yellow tie.
pure
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Her black hair was immaculate, and the pure silk violet dress fitted to perfection.
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Prices start at $ 20 for acetate shades and go up to several hundred dollars for pure silk .
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Her napkin was of pure silk with a neatly monogrammed corner.
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My first impression of the machine was that it was pure silk .
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Hair is a marvellous natural fibre - you could almost compare it to pure silk thread.
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A Casual, short sleeved shirt in pure silk with the fashionable sand-washed finish that feels so luxurious to the touch.
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I made my daughter's dress from pure silk and lace for £80!
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He dressed expensively, wore hand-made shoes and pure silk shirts.
raw
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A refining process ensures that the fibres of the raw silk filling are always non-allergic.
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His eyes were big and blue, and his hair like raw silk surrounded by a wreath of fire....
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They darted about on the front of the group, their silver-leaf hair rustling like raw silk .
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Her frame was small, her arms looked frail and very white against the raw silk .
red
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His shirt was red silk , and the sleeves were full and flamboyant.
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And this guy came out and had on red and black silk and these black shiny shoes.
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She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun.
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The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her.
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Purple red gold black silk , tied so that they had a slightly triangular shape lending the faces beneath a Pharaonic cast.
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She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched.
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Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe.
soft
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With a sigh Lais pulled the soft green silk nightdress over her nakedness.
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Warm skin, as soft as silk against his mouth.
thin
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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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His skin felt cold and clammy through the thin silk shirt.
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A generously proportioned blonde, she wore a blouse of thin white silk with outrageous decolletage and virtually nothing underneath.
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Persian lining, thin silk used for lining gowns, petticoats, etc.
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She was wearing a thin silk dress, sheer stockings, a small fur jacket.
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From one of her spinnerets, she extrudes a thin filament of silk .
white
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His breeches were made of white shiny silk and so was his waistcoat.
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She dropped the white silk cloth in my lap.
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The altar was built of orange boxes, covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore.
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He had on a white silk shirt, black slacks, and black loafers.
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She arrived in blue and white silk and wore floral dresses and a more natural smile than usual.
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Professor M. was wearing an impeccably white silk blouse that morning.
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Blue and white spotted silk tie, £19.50, Thomas Pink, Mulberry belt, as before.
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The young woman stood still, waiting and smiling: small as a child in her glimmering white silk .
yellow
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Her blonde hair was pulled back into a smooth chignon and tied with a yellow silk bow.
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He was in white ducks, brown and white wing tips, and a yellow silk sport shirt.
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Switching back the heavy yellow silk curtains, she peered out yet again.
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Hermès yellow silk tie, as before.
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Opposite page Black and yellow silk pinstripe suit, £970; mustard wool sweater, £477; both by Gianni Versace.
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Her hair was spread all over the pillow like pale yellow silk .
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Her bright yellow silk dress and parasol could be seen the length of the boulevard.
■ NOUN
blouse
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She wore an ivory silk blouse , frothing at neck and cuffs.
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She wore a cream-colored silk blouse and a full linen skirt nipped in at the waist.
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Liz wears Workshop silk blouse , £85.
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He untied the silk blouse very slowly, to let her know what he was doing.
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I was dressed in a cream linen suit with a light grey silk blouse .
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Her silk blouse is open at the neck, showing two strands of pearls.
cloth
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The altar was built of orange boxes, covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore.
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She dropped the white silk cloth in my lap.
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Perkin was so excited that he immediately stained some silk cloth a striking purple.
dress
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Lyddy interrupted her reverie with the cream silk dress laid across her arms like an offering.
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Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
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Lucy wore a petrol blue watered silk dress with matching velvet jacket and had hyacinth pips in her hair.
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She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched.
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She walked into his rooms without knocking, wearing an emerald-green silk dress , no hat, and the Conway pearls.
dupion
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After all, what can you do in a full-length silk dupion with cabbage roses and silver applique?
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Alexander Fabrics kindly supplied us with a combination of cotton gingham, poplin, crepe de Chine, taffeta and silk dupion .
fabric
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Use fine thread; silk thread with silk fabrics , and synthetic thread with synthetic fabrics.
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Some silk fabrics will drape beautifully while others have a light, crisp appearance.
flower
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Alexander demonstrates simple flower arrangements for table centerpieces, holiday centerpieces and silk flowers.
gown
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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.
handkerchief
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It's a Gestapo Officer's silk handkerchief .
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Uncle Shim would dab his mouth with a silk handkerchief , adjusting his green jade bowtie.
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He dried his eyes with a silk handkerchief .
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He had neither grey hair nor a silk handkerchief .
hat
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Father Poole placed his tall silk hat on his head and picked up his stick.
industry
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Following the collapse of the silk industry it became a centre for collar and shirt manufacture.
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He also started the city's silk industry which was to underpin its economy for many years.
ivory
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The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky.
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She wore an ivory silk blouse, frothing at neck and cuffs.
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Thorunn shone in an ivory silk off-the-shoulder gown with full train and matching headband.
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The page wore an ivory silk shirt and trousers with a blue cummerbund.
mill
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This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity, although it started life as a corn mill.
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In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill .
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Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.
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My grandfather had a silk mill , and he had a reservoir that supplied water to the silk mill.
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This began life as a silk mill in the late 1700s, built by Anthony Stratton.
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My grandfather had a silk mill , and he had a reservoir that supplied water to the silk mill.
purse
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He wears his Bible around his neck in a green silk purse .
robe
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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.
scarf
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Add a silk scarf for femininity.
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It was lined with soft fur and my fringed silk scarf .
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The elegantly draped silk scarf was two shades paler than his hair.
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She looked pretty in that short leather jacket she wore with the long colorful silk scarf .
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A red silk scarf was tied around the bloated neck.
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Konno paced the room, tugging at the ends of his silk scarf .
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There was no tie, but a dark red silk scarf was tucked into the open neck of the shirt.
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He wore shabby clothes and shoes and a black silk scarf , always, outdoors and in.
scarves
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A score of fleshy-hued silk scarves fluttered from strategic points, acting as veils.
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Selected silk scarves reduced to £3.99.
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All winners will be receiving Givenchy silk scarves .
sheet
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Nina was half-hidden under a four-poster bed, trailing silk sheets behind her like a bridal train.
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A million red ants crawling inside a silk sheet , that was what I should have seen.
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Uncaring, she blew her nose on a silk sheet .
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Somewhere in the back of her mind she had thought there would be champagne and strawberries and maybe silk sheets .
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The bed with the black silk sheets still bore the indentations of two bodies that had once lain there.
shirt
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He wore his best suit, a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close.
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Designer ties and fine cotton or silk shirts complement the clothes, together with a full range of accessories including handmade Artioli shoes.
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He had on a white silk shirt , black slacks, and black loafers.
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Otley was presentable in his cords and silk shirt .
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He gave Margarett one of his monogrammed silk shirts to use as a smock.
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Ash wore a long, rough silk shirt , and leggings.
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He put on his silk shirt with a few chains underneath.
stocking
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Each garland has a steel framework which is wrapped with silk stockings before being lined, inside and out, with hessian.
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He seemed to be wearing black silk stockings .
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No diamonds, no chandeliers, no party frocks and silk stockings , no glitz, no strains of smooching Sinatra.
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I had seen silk stockings at celebrations, but they were nothing compared to nylon.
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Jay would nod and reply, make coffee, light cigarettes and smile at her silk stocking fantasy.
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Each wore a blue sash at hip level, a matching bonnet, silk stockings and black shoes with a buckle.
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It was useless to try to hoard silk stockings , stated the women's magazines.
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Two promoted silk stockings and Florence Stack appeared in newspaper advertisements praising Tokalon beauty products.
suit
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Centre Line green silk suit , £930; yellow viscose knit turtleneck, £400; both by Gianni Versace.
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He looked extremely good this morning in his blue silk suit and splashy colorful hand-painted tie.
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In a short white silk suit , with a lace-edged jacket, she looked like a petite, rather smug Tinkerbell.
thread
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Hair is a marvellous natural fibre - you could almost compare it to pure silk thread .
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A layer of stiff silk threads separated the two.
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Those photographs: a silk thread held either side of her nose, just tilting it up slightly ....
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A length of yarn to cut into four equal pieces, and besides that, some white silk thread and tinfoil.
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Use fine thread; silk thread with silk fabrics, and synthetic thread with synthetic fabrics.
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That's not a hair the axeman says it's a silk thread , a grass blade, the moth's antennae.
tie
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He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie .
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
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The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.
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She selected a £225 grey-green wool suit, £23 shirt and £20 silk tie .
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Diagonal striped silk tie , £49, Alfred Dunhill.
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He was wearing a grey business suit, an immaculate white shirt and a red and grey striped silk tie .
■ VERB
cover
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You will also need a crash skull, which can be covered with a silk to match your sweater.
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Her friend, the original bird, appeared with a gown made of gold and silver and with slippers covered with silk .
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The walls are covered with silk drapes and there are panoramic views over London.
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The felt is pressed and then glued to a straw base covered in silk .
line
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Lifting it to her face, she discovered that it was lined in fine padded silk .
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In this room, its walls lined with silk , there were two Venetian beds, one unlike the other.
produce
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A worker stimulates the grub to produce its silk by giving it a little squeeze.
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Any one spider can produce different kinds of silk from different spinnerets.
use
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It is used on cotton, silk and man-made fabrics.
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Their owd coats and their owd manes used to shine like silk .
wear
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She wore a black silk trouser-suit, the jacket reaching her hips and hanging loose.
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What distinguished the married students from the unmarried ones was their clothing: only married students wore silk attire and leather shoes.
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She wore an ivory silk blouse, frothing at neck and cuffs.
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She wore a cream-colored silk blouse and a full linen skirt nipped in at the waist.
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And they wore silk socks that would have been frowned upon at the more establishment country clubs in the Hamptons.
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She wore a silk ao dai.
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Princess Margaret wore a pretty blue silk evening dress, and sat in the front row of the circle.
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Professor M. was wearing an impeccably white silk blouse that morning.
wrap
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Each garland has a steel framework which is wrapped with silk stockings before being lined, inside and out, with hessian.
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It wrapped them up in silk and pulled them up out of net immediately.
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She tied up her sticks and wrapped them in the silk again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a silk blouse
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from their engineering expertise, they were as dissimilar as steel and silk .
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Diagonal striped silk tie, £49, Alfred Dunhill.
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Jack was wide awake, in his red silk pajamas and red silk robe.
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One was Pierre Poivre, the son of a prominent Lyons silk tycoon.
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
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She refrained from plopping any sort of silk flora or abstract sculpture atop her well-coiffed head.
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The Madonna presided over it all, high and serene above the altar, dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery.
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The material seemed to her to be a thick heavy silk .