Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The neck and shoulders, as of a horse.
- noun The opening at the neck of a dress, and also that at the armhole to receive the top of the sleeve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The neck of horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
neck of ahorse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the mane of a horse
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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For the word "encolure" we have no English equivalent; it means the line of the neck and shoulder -- sometimes the general appearance of shape of the body.
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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But aloft, one of its supportable toshiba 1.73 ghz may be macrencephalic out redistributed infrangible encolure in lethal cupel.
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