"straw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Eventually we went back to the boat and lay down in its little hut of plaited straw, leaving our fire to die.
- He wears a hat of plaited straw dyed black, as often worn in the summer at the time.
- A tightly woven little basket of plaited straw held beautifully sharpened pencils of a cigar-box colour.
- Corn dolly, figures constructed from plaited straw with an ancient religious significance.
- Then she opened the bread drawer of the dresser, took out the bread knife and the oval basket of plaited straw with its red check cotton lining.
- What good would it do to ride a lady's palfrey, which anyone could ride with a bridle of plaited straw?
- Sandalwood incense was burning somewhere, and the floor was covered in neat mats of plaited straw.
- On a sign from the presiding judge the clerk of the court brought three fans of plaited straw, which the three judges promptly put in action.
- Little gold stars and circles of plaited straw; light, swinging silver-paper bells.
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