- a variation of collaret.
collarette
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Emerson Hough
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 Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
She nodded seriously over her serviceable, unworldly brown collarette.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
As the sun rose high, the Orangemen of the Lodge appeared, each wearing regalia—cuffs and a collarette of sky-blue with a fringe of blazing orange, or else of gold, inscribed with letters and symbols.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Ernest Thompson Seton
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 Helen Follett Stevans
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