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
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He was a figure for the Cortes of Cadiz, solemn, pompous, becollared and rhetorical.
Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914
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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.
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