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collarette

/ ˌkɒləˈrɛt /

noun

  1. a woman's fur or lace collar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In a discrete bed between his garage and rear deck, he grows his single-flowered dahlias — this is to minimize the risk of bees pollinating them with the fuller types — and here he points out Bloomquist Sweet, a strong pink collarette with a showy central disc, and the size of a saucer.

The orange sash has been largely replaced by the cheaper 'collarette' and is the only compulsory item of uniform, usually worn over a suit and tie.

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The orange sash has been largely replaced by the cheaper 'collarette' and is the only compulsory item of uniform, usually worn over a suit and tie.

From BBC

Hair dark as a starless night flowed from beneath this helmet, and streamed in long tresses over the fair shoulders whereof the commencement only, alas! was left exposed by a collarette, or gorget, adorned with many rows of serpentine stones, azodrachs, and chrysoberyls; a linen robe diagonally cut—a mist of material, of woven air, ventus textilis as Petronius says, undulated in vapory whiteness about a lovely body whose outlines it scarcely shaded with the softest shading.

I did not see very much because I held a collarette up to my face to protect it from the hot air, which was unutterably awful.

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