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collarless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English collar Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English collarless From collar + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a garment, having no collar.
    • Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them. 1963 November 15, “The New Madness”, in Time:
    • He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis. 2010 January 7, “Yemen's problems evident at the border”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.
    • The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […] 1918, Sinclair Lewis, “Afterglow”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 81:
    • He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 5, in Burmese Days:
  3. (not-comparable) Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.
    • I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog. 1963, François Mauriac, chapter IX, in Wallace Fowlie, transl., What I Believe, New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., page 118:
    • I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history. 1999, Barbara Smuts in J. M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, Princeton University Press, page 115:

Deriveds

collarlessness