adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cotton/woollen/silk etc cloth
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a dress of the finest silk cloth
rubber/leather/woollen etc gloves
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Dr McIntyre was slowly removing his rubber gloves.
woollen/cotton/nylon socks
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Cotton socks are better for your feet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blanket
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She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
cloth
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Shearmen, who cut the pile to finish woollen cloth , were similarly paid.
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Oxford mixture, dark grey woollen cloth .
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Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away.
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Melton is a thick, very tightly woven woollen cloth .
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It is often found near old mills where the extract was used for washing the woollen cloth produced there.
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The values of the raw wool and the woollen cloth are included in the value of the coat.
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Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk, and more important, woollen cloth .
dress
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Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.
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I watched her knotted calves rise and fall below her heavy, woollen dress .
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Although her woollen dress was scarlet it none the less appeared drab.
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She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours.
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She was dressed , fully dressed, in a grey woollen dress with a soft-scarlet suede belt at her waist.
glove
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The stems were wet and she felt the dampness seeping through her woollen gloves .
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The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.
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I was wearing a heavy overcoat and woollen gloves but the bust whipped its way right into my bones.
hat
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Just a wet walker in a woollen hat , eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
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Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile.
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She ought to have recognized Harry, that woollen hat , the jacket.
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I pulled off my woollen hat and shook out my hair and at once recognition dawned in her face.
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I pulled on my woollen hat .
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A man in overalls and a woollen hat with a bobble on top appeared.
industry
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Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe, the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour.
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Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick, the looms and busts at the woollen industry .
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A small, but thriving, woollen industry existed around the village then.
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It is pleasant to record that today there is again a village woollen industry .
mill
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Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
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Down below is Porth-y-Rhaw Bay, once the site of a woollen mill and a lime kiln.
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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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Why did the factory owners avoid the main valley of the River Aire for their woollen mills and towns?
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They are mostly of brick, unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire, which are nearly always of stone.
textile
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Generally, all woollen textiles are of felt or employ plain weave.
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But our main story lies with the woollen textiles .
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For towns of medium size a big stake in the woollen textile industry was the surest foundation of prosperity.
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Yorkshire kept to woollen textiles with a major market in Leeds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aran cable woollen cardigan with ethnic embroidery, £42.99.
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Chunky navy woollen sweater with zip-up front, £147.
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Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band.
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Navy woollen bolero cardigan with large paisley wool embroidery, £42.99.
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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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The Sheffield cutlery trades, London printing, paper making, coal mining and woollen manufacture all provide well-documented examples.
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The woman was wearing a pink quilted satin affair, the man a woollen red-and-blue tartan job.
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Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.