collarless

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a garment, having no collar.

   • Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them.
   • He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis.
2. 2

   Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.

   • The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]
   • He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven.
3. 3

   Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.

   • I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog.
   • I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.

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