collarette
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The ends of her tulle collarette had been carefully disordered and a big bunch of red flowers was pinned in her bosom stems upwards.
From Dubliners by Joyce, James
A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00.
From Black Beaver The Trapper by Lewis, James Campbell
The music from the robins in the orchard filled my ears; soft winds stirred the lace on Sir William's cuffs and collarette.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Who has not beheld the stunningly gowned girl stalking majestically around the shopping district in a little tailor-made jacket topped off with a fur collarette?
From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Stevans, Helen Follett
Yet her hair was combed to the point of fatality, and at her neck she had a collarette of what might have been lace, but was not.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
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