shirtcollar

See also: shirt collar and shirt-collar

English

Noun

shirtcollar (plural shirtcollars)

  1. Alternative form of shirt collar.
    • 1968, Christopher Leach, chapter 9, in Kate’s Story, New York, N.Y.: Four Winds Press, published 1972, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:
      The slight breeze lifted the points of his shirtcollar.
    • 1976, Alec Redwood, “Two Visitors”, in Mad Dogs and Englishmen, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, section II, page 10:
      He threw open the door abruptly. A stranger stood, hat in hand, on the threshold—a short, rotund man whose neck formed a roll over the back of his shirtcollar, and who was as unmistakably German as Mester had been American.
    • 1980 February, Michael T[homas] Hinkemeyer, chapter 4, in The Harbinger, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 40–41:
      Virgil Carruthers had not led them to expect it, and Carruthers himself, seated across the table from Wade and Suzanne, sweated and ran his forefinger around the inside of his shirtcollar, grinning in helpless apology whenever Suzanne shot him a cold glance of acknowledgement.
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