Arch. Also colarino. [It. (kollarī·no) dim. of collare COLLAR; also called colarin, collar (15 a).]
1. The cincture, fillet, or listel, terminating the apophyge at the extremities of the shaft of a column.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 111/2. Collarino … the same as Astragal … the bottom Ring, with its Fillets in the foot of a capital.
1842–76. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Collar or Colarino, a ring or cincture; it is another name for the astragal of a column.
2. The cylindrical part of the capital in the Tuscan, the Roman Doric, and the Ionic of the Erechtheum.
1715. Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 14. The Collarino, or the Neck of the Column. Ibid., I. 15. Collarino, or Hypotrachilum, or Frize of the Capitel.
1842–76. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Collar, or Colarino … is sometimes called the neck, gorgerin, or hypotrachelium.
1846. Parker, Concise Gloss. Archit. (1875), 71. Collarino, the cylindrical part of the column between the annulets and under the ovolo and the astragal.
