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Meanings of clerical collar in English
Detachable collar worn by Christian clergy.
Usage of clerical collar in English
1
He was wearing a tight black short-sleeve shirt with a clerical collar.
2
He had been in discussion with another man, one wearing a clerical collar.
3
He tore at his high clerical collar as though suffocating literally.
4
The white square of his clerical collar stood out distinctively against the shirt.
5
Father Hoyt wore his black cape, black suit, and clerical collar.
6
He was wearing a black shirt, black pants, and a white clerical collar.
7
He spoke the language fluently, and his clerical collar would place him above suspicion.
8
Monsignor Verona stared, unblinking, one hand fingering his clerical collar.
9
And goes about with his own soap, and wears a thundering great clerical collar.
10
He stood now toward the bow, in battle dress adorned with a clerical collar.
11
He was dressed in a gray lounge suit, a clerical collar alone denoting his vocation.
12
He went upstairs, donned his clerical collar, and returned.
13
His waving, silvery hair was dripping blood, spotting with its red drops the white clerical collar.
14
As he stood up, I could see his clerical collar and shirtsleeves rolled to the elbow.
15
Dressed like a pilgrim-spectacles ,darksuit, clerical collar.
16
If the ghost appears, he'll certainly be easy to spot: Belasco's sartorial trademark was a clerical collar.
This collocation consists of:
Clerical collar through the time
Clerical collar across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common