Noun: collar
| Singular | collar |
| Plural | collars |
Sample Sentences
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It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar. [1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:]
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Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
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a collar of brawn
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A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
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In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve. [Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)]
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The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man. [2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order:]
Nouns inflected like collar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet. See: Middle English Nouns '
coler', French Nouns '
collier', Latin Nouns '
collāris', Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃', Old English Nouns '
heals', Spanish Nouns '
cuello'.
Verbs referencing "collar"
Spanish Nouns
cuello.