Collar legal definition of collar

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returned Jo, giving her collar a twitch and her head a hasty brush.

Edna removed her collar and opened her dress at the throat.

First, a stiff heavy collar just on my neck, and a bridle with great side-pieces against my eyes called blinkers, and blinkers indeed they were, for I could not see on either side, but only straight in front of me; next, there was a small saddle with a nasty stiff strap that went right under my tail; that was the crupper.

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Jurgis would have spoken again, but the policeman had seized him by the collar and was twisting it, and a second policeman was making for him with evidently hostile intentions.

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Well, now, if I didn't think you sewed his collar with white thread, but it's black.

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This primeval vestment reached from the throat to the knees, and served at once all the usual purposes of body-clothing; there was no wider opening at the collar, than was necessary to admit the passage of the head, from which it may be inferred, that it was put on by slipping it over the head and shoulders, in the manner of a modern shirt, or ancient hauberk.

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First there marched four officers of the jeddak's Guard bearing a huge salver on which reposed, upon a cushion of scarlet silk, a great golden chain with a collar and padlock at each end.

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What I was afraid of was that everyone present, from the insolent marker down to the lowest little stinking, pimply clerk in a greasy collar, would jeer at me and fail to understand when I began to protest and to address them in literary language.

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Another thing I had almost forgotten, which is that the lappets of the fur cloak must be raised, and the collar bound with lace.

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Lord Lundie strove to disembarrass himself of his accoutrements much as an ill-trained Punch and Judy dog tries to escape backwards through his frilled collar.

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Perhaps you have noticed a fur collar I occasionally wear.

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You shall become a black poodle and have a gold collar round your neck, and shall eat burning coals, till the flames burst forth from your throat.

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