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What is the noun for collarette?

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collar
  1. Anything that encircles the neck.
    1. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
    2. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
    3. A chain worn around the neck.
    4. A similar detachable item.
    5. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
    6. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
    7. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
    8. (archaic) A hangman's knot.
  2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
  3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
    1. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
    2. (architecture) A ring or cincture.
    3. (architecture) A collar beam.
    4. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
  4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
  5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
  6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
  7. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
  8. (slang) An arrest.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “A blue chambray shirt with a button-downed collar was tucked neatly into the waistband of a pair of perfectly fitting black jeans.”
      “The bride had on her head a coronet set full of diamonds, with a diamond collar about her neck and shoulders.”
      “So when the collar for the new valve went round the pipe, there wasn't contact all the way round, due to a distinct lack of pipe.”
collarette
  1. A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
  2. A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
  3. The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
  4. Rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
  5. Examples:
    1. “In these brasses we find that the camail has become the Standard of Mail, or collarette, worn under the gorget of plate.”
      “And big tears trickled down her cheeks as far as the frilling of her collarette.”
      “I did not see very much because I held a collarette up to my face to protect it from the hot air, which was unutterably awful.”
collaret
  1. Alternative form of collarette (small collar)
  2. Examples:
    1. “The breast is, in its turn, separated from the greyish abdomen by a broad black band, which ornithologists term a collaret.”
      “Round his neck was the sieppura, a collaret of bears fur, with the bears mask hanging over his breast.”
      “When she came in her angelic face was as white as the collaret which encircled her throat, and the scar was more livid than usual.”
collarmaker
  1. someone who makes collars
collarmakers
  1. plural of collarmaker
collarettes
  1. plural of collarette
collarets
  1. plural of collaret
collars
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