Definition of Clerical collar

1. Noun. A stiff white collar with no opening in the front; a distinctive symbol of the clergy.

Exact synonyms: Dog Collar, Roman Collar
Generic synonyms: Collar, Neckband

Definition of Clerical collar

1. Noun. A stiff white collar, having no opening at the front, fastened at the back, worn by members of the Christian clergy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerical Collar

clergeons
clergial
clergical
clergies
clergy
clergyable
clergyman
clergymen
clergypeople
clergyperson
clergypersons
clergywoman
clergywomen
cleric
clerical
clerical collar (current term)
clerical collars
clerical spectacles
clericalism
clericalisms
clericalist
clericalists
clerically
clericals
clericity
clerick
clerics
clerid
clerid beetle
clerids

Literary usage of Clerical collar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"The origin of the clerical collar has been found in the Amice. It became " first a white collar with a necktie, and then the clerical collar as now usually ..."

2. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1918)
"... his clothing hampered him: off came his coat — his clerical coat; at the third his collar was chafing him: off came his clerical collar. ..."

3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Behold him, then, in their only arm-chair, a bent brier between his teeth, chin down in three folds on his clerical collar, and blowing like an amiable ..."

4. Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"folds on his clerical collar, and blowing like an amiable whale, while Number Five discoursed of life as it appeared to them, and specially of that last ..."

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