noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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Watching a youth in a blue tunic and spangles performing on the slack rope, he determined to attempt a similar feat.
white
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He wore a red-and-gold headdress, and a white tunic trimmed with the same colours.
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A meat saw roared, scattering sawdust, worked by a butcher in a white tunic .
■ VERB
wear
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They would come back on leave and wear their scarlet tunics in the dale.
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All of them were wearing brown cotton tunics because of a promise I had made on the very first day of construction.
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It was bitterly cold, and Killion wore Dickinson's tunic .
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He wore a light yellow tunic which reached the knee, and on his feet were leather sandals with decorated metal buckles.
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He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down.
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Otherwise, out of doors, more practical hooded cloaks were worn over knee-length tunics .
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Of rather grim appearance, she wore a tunic of writhing snakes.
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It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of them were wearing brown cotton tunics because of a promise I had made on the very first day of construction.
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Behind the big drum came the band of four musicians dressed in loose black tunics and black pillbox hats.
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Knee-length tunics, loose and thin, moved with each step.
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The tunic was piped in branch-colour around the collar, deep cuffs, and down the front edge.
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They would come back on leave and wear their scarlet tunics in the dale.
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Watching a youth in a blue tunic and spangles performing on the slack rope, he determined to attempt a similar feat.
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Why are there fleurs-de-lys on his tunic ?