collarless
adjEtymology From collar + -less.
1
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
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
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:
- Derived terms
- collarlessness