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Place for an unwanted ring?
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collar
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "to grab (someone) by the collar or neck," from collar (n.). Meaning "to capture" is attested from 1610s. Related: Collared ; collaring . As a past participle adjective, collared "wearing a collar" is from late 14c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that encircle the neck. 2 #The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To grab or seize by the collar or neck. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A collar is an ornate chain , often made of gold and enamel , and set with precious stones, which is worn about the neck as a symbol of membership in various chivalric orders . It is a particular form of the livery collar , the grandest form of the widespread ...
Usage examples of collar.
In the dark executive suit and white winged collar, he looked like a sketch by one of the Millsport absurdist school.
He reached into his shopping bag and brought out a handful of red and yellow flea collars -- Alii colors.
Then as I hauled inexorably a nose appeared, then a head, then all of the big animal hanging limply by his collar.
She gave a last kick at the mud-iron, pulled at the collar of her coat and pushed past Andi to give William Tyson a turn at scraping the mud from his shoes.
Turning up the deep astrachan collar of his long coat, the stranger swept out of the shop, with the air, Miss Fritten afterwards described it, of a Satrap proroguing a Sanhedrim.
Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar.
Ellinger followed her, buttoned up in a long furlined coat, showily befrogged down the front, with a glossy astrachan collar.
Ellinger held the ponies in a little and turned down his high astrachan collar.
Instantly before his eyes rose the image of a pair of shoulders that were very broad, objectionably broad, clad in a frogged overcoat with an astrachan collar.
Then he left, in a good deal of astrachan collar and nickel-plated limousine, and the place felt less crowded.
A huge black Special Forces grunt plucked Heavy from the barstool by his collar and the seat of his pants and carried him outside.
I looked at the incredibly lovely girl in the mirror, she bedecked in a rope of red silk, made-up, perfumed vulnerable, soft, with armlets and bracelets, golden beads intertwined in the Turian collar.
With an amused quirk of his lips, Bloch took the ornament and draped it around my neck, above the collar of my torn, filthy tailored blouse.
Both were dressed in impeccably tailored uniforms, bloodred tunic with a stock collar over navy-blue trousers.
His eyes were the bluest she had ever seen and his hair, very dark, curled elegantly over his collar.