brass-collar
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of brass-collar
An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow- mortals in this Earth.
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
Gurth had the inexpressible satisfaction of feeling himself related indissolubly, though in a rude brass-collar way, to his fellow-mortals in this Earth.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have a scope as wide as his faculties now are:—will he not be all the usefuler to you in that new state?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
And again we are to bethink us that men cannot now be bound to men by brass-collars,—not at all: that this brass-collar method, in all figures of it, has vanished out of Europe forevermore!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
Once for all, he is to be loose of the brass-collar, to have a scope as wide as his faculties now are:—will he not be all the usefuler to you, in that new state?
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
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