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  • noun Plural form of collarette.

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Examples

  • Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • The mink is used for collarettes, boas, and ladies coats.

    Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis

  • There were furs displayed there, muffs and collarettes of skunk and other animals, even the humble rabbit artistically treated to meet the insatiable female appetite for sable at all prices.

    The Good Comrade Una Lucy Silberrad 1913

  • At last she came into the front "upstairs sitting-room," a heap of gloves, stockings, collarettes -- the odds and ends of a wildly disordered wardrobe -- in her lap.

    The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

  • The air was filled with the starched rustle of white coiffes and stiff collarettes; a low, incessant clatter of sabots sounded from gallery to arena; gusts of breathless whispering passed like capricious breezes blowing, then died out in the hush which fell as our band-master, McCadger, raised his wand and the band burst into "Dixie."

    The Maids of Paradise 1899

  • And it is wonderful to see how the women whose throats are going the way of the world have welcomed the revival of black velvet if they haven't the pearl collarettes.

    The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations Clyde Fitch 1887

  • At last she came into the front "upstairs sitting-room," a heap of gloves, stockings, collarettes -- the odds and ends of a wildly disordered wardrobe -- in her lap.

    The Pit Frank Norris 1886

  • Just think of the feather capes and muffs and collarettes made of birds.

    Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Virginia Sharpe Patterson 1877

  • Spongy, dry as pumice stone, silvered with lichen and gilded with moss, the towers rose entire, though from their crenelated collarettes whole blocks were blown away on windy nights.

    Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

  • Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

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