a. [f. COLLAR + -LESS.] Without a collar. a. Of a garment.

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1611.  Cotgr., Dolyman, a Turkish gowne, long coate, or vpper garment; collerlesse.

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1822.  New Monthly Mag., V. 242. His blue, collarless, basket-buttoned coat.

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1862.  Thornbury, Turner, I. 64. The boy with the flowing locks and collarless coat of puce or brown.

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  b.  Not wearing a collar; destitute of a collar.

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1859.  Cornwallis, New World, I. 296. A striped necktie … twisted like a rope round his collarless neck.

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1885.  Law Times, LXXX. 109/2. The case of the collarless dog.

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