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Example sentences for "coloured velvet"

  • Over his shoulders he wore a mantle of watchet-coloured velvet; his neck was encircled by a falling band; and silken hose of the same colour as the doublet completed his costume.

  • Her dress was of white brocade, over which she wore a loose robe of violet-coloured velvet, with open hanging sleeves, well calculated to display the polished beauty of her arms.

  • She had taken a gown, a little mouse-coloured velvet gown, from the wardrobe and laid it on the bed for Nina to admire.

  • There was, after all, some advantage in being made so very like a man, since it compelled her to take Prothero's view of a little woman in a mouse-coloured velvet gown.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coloured velvet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but never; coloured clothes; coloured coat; coloured flowers; coloured frontispiece; coloured glass; coloured paper; coloured people; coloured silk; coloured silks; coloured velvet; deep shadow; diluted sulphuric; earnest conversation; got there; hydraulic mining; plus three; railway companies; said lightly; said with; social production; sometimes found; striking contrast; succeeding times; thou need; under pressure