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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In England, a day on which knights appeared at court in the collars of their orders.
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“It was the collar-day, but being extremely rainy, I did not go to see them course.”
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
“Sandwich came and stood by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he went to the Chappell, and we parted.”
“W. Batten to the Duke; and after discourse as usual with him in his closett, I went to my Lord's: the King and Duke being gone to chappell, it being collar-day, it being Candlemas-day; where I staid with him a while until towards noon, there being Jonas Moore talking about some mathematical businesses, and thence I walked at noon to Mr. Povey's, where”
“At White Hall we met the Duke in the Matted Gallery, and there he discoursed with us; and by and by my Lord Sandwich came and stood by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he went to the Chappell, and we parted.”
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