"pattern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Having now all but scraped the delicate Oriental pattern off the china plate before her, she set down her spoon, adding, "I noticed that you have a reasonably fine pianoforte in one of your drawing rooms.
- While they technically fall into the Oriental pattern of ice cream and fruit, the memorable sweets are offered with style.
- It runs eternally in certain grooves of local and historical type: the medieval knight, the eighteenth-century duellist, and the modern cowboy, recur with the same stiff simplicity as the conventional human figures in an Oriental pattern.
- "Inevitably, it will attract a great deal of Asian business travelers, based on its location and a design inspired by Oriental patterns and materials," said Norbert Beatty, a spokesman for the hotel.
- I thought Dan had got the state- room pretty full of rubbish at last, but a while ago his dragoman arrived with a bran new, ghastly tomb-stone of the Oriental pattern, with his name handsomely carved and gilded on it, in Turkish characters.
- And some people see intricate Oriental patterns.
- In the corner of the room was a small, polished wood cupboard with riotously coloured Oriental patterns on it - writhing dragons, finely dressed women, parasols, trees, mountains, birds.
- Dennis Beezley, a bond trader in Manhattan who owns a house in Fleischmanns, bought a room-size wool rug with an Oriental pattern for $130.
- It looked recently renovated, appliances black, counters and cabinets white, the wallpaper an Oriental pattern of pastel flowers against delicate blue.
- Darker blue designs, nearly black, traced it in a vaguely Oriental pattern.
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