Collarette
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
"Work the 2 stitches in looped knitting; the last ten rows make a kind of gore on the lower edge of the collarette."
- 2 A small collar of inner petals or leaf-like extensions to the stem.
"There are no recurved strap-shaped little flowers; collarette of the composite flower with scales arranged in several rows ( Fig . TVU )"
- 3 A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
"The Collarette dahlia is a very novel and distinct type."
- 4 The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
"The edge of the pupil is soft and seems to dissolve into the collarette rather than stand apart from it."
- 5 The rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
"Occasionally, scaling may be diffuse and irregular instead of collarette of fragments of scales that from the border into the center of the lesion, like a curtain"
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- 6 An advertising card fitted around the neck of a bottle.
Example
More examples"Work the 2 stitches in looped knitting; the last ten rows make a kind of gore on the lower edge of the collarette."
Etymology
From French collerette.