Definitions

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  • adjective wearing a collar, or describing a shirt with a collar
  • adjective by extension wearing a shirt, and thus of an upper class

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Examples

  • He was a figure for the Cortes of Cadiz, solemn, pompous, becollared and rhetorical.

    Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

  • On the seat beside me sat a hard-featured, sallow-complexioned, tobacco-chewing, bright-eyed, shirt-becollared, wide-awake-covered individual, who, as soon as we had quitted the station, commenced a conversation with me.

    The Civil War in America 1861

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