collarette

British  

/ ˌkɒləˈrɛt /

noun

1. a woman's fur or lace collar

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Example Sentences

In a discrete bed between his garage and rear deck, he grows his single-flowered dahlias — this is to minimize the risk of bees pollinating them with the fuller types — and here he points out Bloomquist Sweet, a strong pink collarette with a showy central disc, and the size of a saucer.

From Washington Post

Hair dark as a starless night flowed from beneath this helmet, and streamed in long tresses over the fair shoulders whereof the commencement only, alas! was left exposed by a collarette, or gorget, adorned with many rows of serpentine stones, azodrachs, and chrysoberyls; a linen robe diagonally cut—a mist of material, of woven air, ventus textilis as Petronius says, undulated in vapory whiteness about a lovely body whose outlines it scarcely shaded with the softest shading.

From Project Gutenberg

I did not see very much because I held a collarette up to my face to protect it from the hot air, which was unutterably awful.

From Project Gutenberg

The music from the robins in the orchard filled my ears; soft winds stirred the lace on Sir William's cuffs and collarette.

From Project Gutenberg

"A young lady's dress of mauve silk with muslin collarette—ten francs!" he called.

From Project Gutenberg