TUNIC


Meaning of TUNIC in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

blue

Watching a youth in a blue tunic and spangles performing on the slack rope, he determined to attempt a similar feat.

white

He wore a red-and-gold headdress, and a white tunic trimmed with the same colours.

A meat saw roared, scattering sawdust, worked by a butcher in a white tunic .

■ VERB

wear

They would come back on leave and wear their scarlet tunics in the dale.

All of them were wearing brown cotton tunics because of a promise I had made on the very first day of construction.

It was bitterly cold, and Killion wore Dickinson's tunic .

He wore a light yellow tunic which reached the knee, and on his feet were leather sandals with decorated metal buckles.

He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down.

Otherwise, out of doors, more practical hooded cloaks were worn over knee-length tunics .

Of rather grim appearance, she wore a tunic of writhing snakes.

It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All of them were wearing brown cotton tunics because of a promise I had made on the very first day of construction.

Behind the big drum came the band of four musicians dressed in loose black tunics and black pillbox hats.

Knee-length tunics, loose and thin, moved with each step.

The tunic was piped in branch-colour around the collar, deep cuffs, and down the front edge.

They would come back on leave and wear their scarlet tunics in the dale.

Watching a youth in a blue tunic and spangles performing on the slack rope, he determined to attempt a similar feat.

Why are there fleurs-de-lys on his tunic ?

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