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• col|lar|et — or col|lar|ette «KOL uh REHT», noun. a woman s ornamental collar or neckpiece …   Useful english dictionary

• col|lar|ette — col|lar|et or col|lar|ette «KOL uh REHT», noun. a woman s ornamental collar or neckpiece …   Useful english dictionary

• col|lar|band — «KOL uhr BAND», noun. a band to which the collar of a shirt is attached; neckband …   Useful english dictionary

• col|lar|bone — «KOL uhr BOHN», noun. the bone connecting the breastbone and the shoulder blade; clavicle …   Useful english dictionary

• col|lar|work — «KOL uhr WURK», noun. 1. heavy or uphill work, such as compels a horse to press against the collar: »There were still fourteen miles, nearly all collarwork, between that [place] and the baths (Thomas A. Trollope). 2. Figurative: »... breaking… …   Useful english dictionary

• blue-col|lar — «BLOO KOL uhr», adjective. of or having to do with industrial or factory work or workers, or with unskilled or skilled manual labor: »There has been a steady increase in the number of white collar workers relative to blue collar factory workers… …   Useful english dictionary

• brass-col|lar — «BRAS KOL uhr, BRAHS », adjective. U.S. Informal. brassbound; inflexible: »His sharecropper father was a brass collar Democrat out of the old South (Harper s) …   Useful english dictionary

• gray-col|lar — «GRAY KOL uhr», adjective. U.S. of or having to do with workers who perform technical services of repair or maintenance. ╂[patterned on blue collar and white collar] …   Useful english dictionary

• horse-col|lar — «HRS KOL uhr», transitive verb. Baseball Slang. to prevent from scoring; keep scoreless …   Useful english dictionary

• o|ver|col|lar — «OH vuhr KOL uhr», noun. a collar on a coat that is made of a different fabric or color than the coat itself: »An overcollar of black Russian sable or chinchilla can be snapped in (New Yorker) …   Useful english dictionary