Collocations withdress
These are words often used in combination withdress.
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black dress
The summer uniform consists of a black dress, with a white cape and apron.
From theCambridge English Corpus
blue dress
Directing the reader's gaze onto herself, she reveals her person outfitted in "a delicate light blue dress, a white bonnet prettily trimmed, and an equally chaste shawl" (13).
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ceremonial dress
Items of ceremonial dress for animals include headpieces, reins and browbands.
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dress shoes
The forest officers wore leather dress shoes and office clothes and carried sugar candies in their pockets.
From theCambridge English Corpus
dress shop
Let us take, for example, a dress shop run by an employer, with a manageress and one assistant.
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green dress
Perlimplín wears a green dress coat and a white curly wig.
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pink dress
She then puts on a pink dress and starts singing.
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Wikipedia
red dress
Mary wore her red dress.
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silk dress
Dressed in a classy silk dress, she runs through gardens, lies in bed and walks through the grass, all with a burgeoning belly.
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Wikipedia
simple dress
Too late he is prepared fully to appreciate the "dove-like" modesty and simple dress of his dead wife.
From theCambridge English Corpus
strict dress
Members had long hair and were loose in their interpretation of the strict dress codes of the movement.
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traditional dress
This contemporary top-down configuration of state multiculturalism has focused on a specific set of perceived ' benign' cultural markers of indigenous difference, most prominently traditional dress.
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