collaret

American  

[kol-uh-ret] / ˌkɒl əˈrɛt /

Or collarette

noun

1. a small ornamental collar of fur, lace, or other material, worn by women.

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Etymology

Origin of collaret

1680–90; collar + -et, modeled on French collerette

Example Sentences

Veronique was expecting him, dressed in her blue silk gown and muslin guimpe, over which fell a collaret made of lawn with a deep hem.

From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Sometimes the collaret is interrupted in the middle.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas

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.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

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 From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank