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butterfly collar

noun

  1. the Irish name for wing 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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In 1978, six years after he was convicted of molesting Ms. Shapiro, Mr. Alcala appeared in a brown bell-bottom suit and a shirt with a butterfly collar as “Bachelor No. 1” on an episode of “The Dating Game.”

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Back in the early ‘70s, it was. He had the ‘fro, the butterfly collar, the polyester pants.

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The child was wearing an embroidered little blue dress with the letters R-O-S-E on a butterfly collar.

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She was wearing one of her minidresses, a navy blue with a wide butterfly collar.

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In 20 years this hairstyle will be like bell-bottoms or butterfly collar shirts, one of those things we look back on and shake our heads, saying, “Why did we ever do that to ourselves?”

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