Also 7 colleret, 9 -ette. [ad. F. collerette, dim. of collier COLLAR. The Fr. form is frequent in Millinery.] A small collar; a woman’s collar of linen, lace, fur, etc.
1690. Evelyn, Mundus Muliebris, 2.
| Two Night-Rails, and a Scarf beset | |
| With a great Lace, a Colleret. |
1869. Mrs. Palliser, Lace, iv. 61. Of this Lombardy thread were the magnificent collerettes.
1882. Emma J. Worboise, Sissie, xxxiii. Her mother gave her a very pretty little collarette.
b. The circle of tentacles of the sea-anemone.
1869. H. M. Hart, trans. Moquin-Tandon’s World of Sea, 125. The anemone has spread his painted collarette.
