"folly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

folly sustantivo

sustantivo + folly
Kolokacji: 7
Ziegfeld Folly • Will Rogers Folly • Street Folly • Ice Folly • garden folly • ...
folly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
Folly Beach • Folly Island • Folly Theater • Folly Bridge • Folly Farm • ...
verbo + folly
Kolokacji: 5
realize one's folly • know as one's Folly • folly built • commit the folly • call one's Folly
adjetivo + folly
Kolokacji: 17
human folly • sheer folly • youthful folly • utter folly • great folly • ...
(1) human, romantic, incredible
Kolokacji: 3
(3) utter, pure, complete
Kolokacji: 3
(4) great, greatest, dangerous
Kolokacji: 3
(5) Gothic, Victorian
Kolokacji: 2
1. Gothic folly = Gotycka głupota Gothic folly
  • The Villa Straylight," said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, "is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.
  • Bureaucratically correct, the Abingdon town council has placed a sign beside a Gothic folly: "These are not real ruins."
  • On the roof, the water tank enclosure, often a throwaway item, was handled like a Gothic folly, its octagonal form held up by buttresses.
  • Close to the church, at the end of a paved walk is a small Gothic folly designed by Richard Bentley.
  • In a Victorian Gothic folly?
  • It is surrounded by parkland, with two lakes and a Gothic folly (Sham Castle).
  • No, in a Gothic folly - a porchway somewhere.
  • To the north, at the ridge of a faraway hill, is a Gothic folly known as an eye-catcher, which was built to look like a castle in ruins.
  • By 1798 Brenna raised a Gothic folly, Bip fortress, which fascinated Paul so much that he listed it on the Army register of real fortresses.
  • There was furniture in the room--difficult to notice in the first shock of seeing the central Gothic folly of Shadow's Gate.
2. Victorian folly = Wiktoriańska głupota Victorian folly
(6) fiscal, financial
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + folly
Kolokacji: 9
of folly • in one's folly • for one's folly • to folly • from one's folly • ...

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