Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word coat-collar.

Examples

  • Judge Witberg declined to rise, and was dragged to his feet by the coat-collar, only to have one eye blacked and be put on his back again.

    The Benefit of the Doubt 2010

  • He put up his coat-collar and tightened his scarf, for now he was meeting the wind.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:

    Going into Society 2007

  • When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:

    Going into Society 2007

  • When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:

    A House to Let 2007

  • He turned and sat down, with his coat-collar toward her.

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

  • “I prefer to keep them on,” he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side-whisker over his coat-collar that completely hid his cheeks and face.

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

  • “Silence, you brute you!” groaned Lady Gorgon; and seizing him by the shirt-frill and coat-collar, carried him away to his nurse, who, with many other maids of the Whig and Tory parties, stood giggling and peeping at the landing-place.

    The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

  • And then sticking a card between my stock and my coat-collar, in what is called the scruff of my neck, the disgusting brute gave me another blow behind my back, and left the coffee-room with his friends.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then — nothingness, no visible thing at all!

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.