falling collar

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English

Noun

falling collar (plural falling collars)

  1. A wide collar which lies flat
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 26:
      He flung the cloak most melodramatically over his left arm—took off the plumed hat, whose white feathers swept the floor—shewed a pair of silver-mounted pistols, and a dark-blue doublet laced with crimson and gold, and a worked falling collar.