What is "high-necked"

Usage examples of "high-necked".

Genevieve whispered to Glorieta, during afternoon recreation, walking through the gardens on their way to the badminton court, their skirts swishing around their ankles, the long sleeves of their high-necked blouses daringly turned up to expose delicate wrists.

Today he was dressed, as in the old days, in a favorite combination of a high-necked shirt with fine green-and-white check and an ultraconservative business suit with a herringbone pattern of mixed brown and gray.

Her dinner gown, high-necked, ruffle-bosomed, diamond-sequined, red velvet, looked as if she had purchased it in 1890.

Her golden yellow silk dress became high-necked, but with an oval cutout that exposed the tops of her breasts.

She looked like a Chinese doll, with long, shiny hair in a braid, but her high-necked happi coat was buttoned over a rounded bosom, and her queue had overtones of red, like lacquer on an antique box.

She was wearing a tobacco brown suit with a high-necked white sweater inside it.

Her garment was different too, a top-shaped, high-necked dress fitted with half a dozen big bulging pockets.