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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wing collar
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If you insist on wearing a made-up tie, wear a shirt with a turned-down collar, not a wing collar.

Usage examples of "wing collar".

A man of thirty, tall and a hard-faced, in a diplomat's black morning coat, wing collar and dark-striped trousers.

His dress shirt was a snowy expanse over the great chest, and the starched wing collar too tight for 2 neck swollen not with fat but with muscle and sinew.

Manfred always seemed ill at ease in tails, and the starched wing collar of his dress shirt bit into his thick neck and left a vivid red mark on the skin.

Opened back in my room, the boxes yielded a line of high quality corporate props that Serenity Carlyle would have gone wild for: two blocky, sand-coloured suits, cut to Ryker's size, a half dozen handmade shirts with the JacSol logo embroidered on each wing collar, formal shoes in real leather, a midnight blue raincoat, a JacSol dedicated mobile phone and a small black disc with a thumbprint DNA encoding pad.

Suzette adjusted Raj's cravat, beneath the high wing collar of the dress-uniform jacket.

Rube was sitting in a wooden rocker, and he looked great: His suit had four buttons and high tiny lapels, and he wore a stand-up wing collar and a four-in-hand black tie with a gold stickpin.