"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
2. Victorian folly = Wiktoriańska głupota Victorian folly
  • Another starting point to ascend Clougha is from the Victorian folly of Jubilee Tower, where there is also a car park.
  • The tower is actually a Victorian folly, built as a summer house by the Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey for his wife, Ellin Williams in 1868.
  • It was a mad mongrel of a building, a Victorian folly lampooning the worst taste of several architectural ages.
  • In a Victorian Gothic folly?
  • The gardens also feature a Victorian folly, kitchen garden, contemporary sculptures, carp pond, wildlife areas and rose gardens.
  • In the very centre of this Victorian folly stood something so totally out of place as to take the breath from their lungs.
  • In the early 1800s the ruined chapel became a fernery and later a Victorian folly.
  • At its heart is Glenveagh Castle, a beautiful late Victorian 'folly' that was originally built as a summer residence.
  • The Wainhouse Tower, at King Cross, is a late Victorian folly constructed between 1871 - 1875.
  • The current castle is an elaborately decorated Victorian folly designed by William Burges for the Marquess and built in the 1870s, as an occasional retreat.
(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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