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Neckband

noun

A band around the collar of a garment.

A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over. Synonym: collar.

Necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck. Synonyms: choker, collar, dog collar.

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"Neckband" Quotes from Famous Books

... of ten days and nights, and yet he bends not the woman to his will, and she more luscious than a peach from the southern wall. Thinkest thou it's love, oh Fuddja? And thinkest thou the whiteness of my bosom shows to advantage against the gold of my neckband?" ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... his wrists, which were wet with a clammy sweat of weakness. His nightshirt was open at the neck, showing his weak chest, his too transparent skin, which was stretched and thin like a sail blown out by a puff of wind to rending point. Christophe's strong fingers fumbled as he buttoned the neckband of Olivier's ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

... there with the Pep and with the Vocabulary. Otherwise she was a Naughty-Naughty. The costume was a plain Burial Shroud, the only Ornament being a 4-carat Wen just above the Neckband. ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... lamplight against the darkness of the outer room the face and figure of a tall girl; doubtless the one whom he had seen at the window. A moment she stood pointing at them with her hand, her face white—and whiter in seeming by reason of the black hair which fell round it; her eyes were dilated, the neckband of her dark red gown was torn open that she might have air. "A Provencal!" the intruder murmured to himself. "Beautiful ...

— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman

Words linked to "Neckband" : necklace, neck ruff, neck opening, rabato, sweater, ruff, ruffle, Eton collar, banding, polo-neck collar, turtleneck collar, jumper, collar, Roman collar, neck, band, dog collar, rebato, choker, stripe, facing, clerical collar, Peter Pan collar