- 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 Hough, Emerson
A good moiré underskirt for one-and-eleven-three was not to be neglected, and a handsome string-lace collarette for six-three would iron out and be worth at least three-and-six.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Jim laid his hard hands on the shoulders of her white fur collarette.
From The Brown Mouse by Quick, Herbert
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
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
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