collarette
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Alice unloosed from her shoulders a collarette of rich lace, and wrapped it round the rusty key, the angles of which hurt her hand.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
Bring the third row of web down in front to form the tabs; then up to the back of collarette and finish the back, bringing the last row down in front into the tabs.
From Spool Knitting by McCormack, Mary A.
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
He did not see, just then, the hollow beneath her chin, the two lines of sinew that, bounding a depression, disappeared beneath her collarette.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold
They dined by the latticed window; two candles lighted them; old Anne served them—old Anne of Fäouette in her wide white coiffe and collarette, her velvet bodice and her chaussons broidered with the rose.
From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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