Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small collar or fichu of linen, lace, fur, etc., worn by women.
  • noun Any piece of armor protecting the neck, more particularly in front. See gorgerin and hausse-col.
  • noun In zoology: In certain goniatite cephalopods of Devonian age, one of a series of swellings in the shell which apparently represent successive positions of the stoma or shell-aperture.
  • noun The circle of tentacles in sea-anemones.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.

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Examples

  • The lower plumage is white save for a blue collaret, which is interrupted in the middle.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Sometimes the collaret is interrupted in the middle.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • The breast is, in its turn, separated from the greyish abdomen by a broad black band, which ornithologists term a collaret.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Instead she concerned herself with lifting the collaret of bells off over Mrs. Hadley-Smith's head and bestowing it upon the rounded shoulders of the girl.

    From Place to Place 1910

  • In the coils and masses of her black hair she fixed her two great cabochons of pearls, and clasped about her neck her palm-broad collaret of pearls and diamonds.

    The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

  • I want some to match a collaret of my own; and I cant get it at Perry and John's.

    Fanny's First Play George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • "Thank you," said Jane, as she received the collaret.

    The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

  • When she came in her angelic face was as white as the collaret which encircled her throat, and the scar was more livid than usual.

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Jane took off her mink-fur collaret, which was sadly worn.

    The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

  • In the coils and masses of her black hair she fixed her two great cabochons of pearls, and clasped about her neck her palm-broad collaret of pearls and diamonds.

    The Pit Frank Norris 1886

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