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collarette, -et|kɒləˈrɛt| Also 7 colleret, 9 -ette. [ad. F. collerette, dim. of collier collar. The Fr. form is frequent in Millinery.] a. A small collar; a woman's collar of linen, lace, fur, etc.
1690Evelyn Mundus Muliebris, Two night-rails, and a scarf beset With a great lace, a colleret. 1869F. B. Palliser Lace iv. 61 Of this Lombardy thread were the magnificent collerettes. 1882E. J. Worboise Sissie xxxiii, Her mother gave her a very pretty little collarette. b. The circle of tentacles of the sea-anemone.
1869H. M. Hart tr. Moquin-Tandon's World of Sea 125 The anemone has spread his painted collarette. c. A dahlia with a ‘collar’ of very shortened petals immediately surrounding the centre, and flat outer petals. Also attrib.
[1904Jrnl. R. Hort. Soc. XXVIII. 640 Dahlias ‘à Collerette’..flower of single type, but with a number of slender elongated florets in the centre, the latter forming the ‘collerette’.] 1913Gardeners' Chron. 8 Feb. 85/1 The Collerette is a glorified single Dahlia. 1914Jrnl. R. Hort. Soc. XXXIX. ii. 658 The Collarette section was represented by about one hundred and fifty varieties. 1931Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 21) 131 Dahlia... Collarette: Flowers, single, with ‘collar’ of very shortened florets; outer florets broad and flattened. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot iii. 391 Jars of dahlias set out in groups of pompoms, collarettes, cactus and so on. 1959Listener 27 Aug. 334/1 Dahlias:..collerette ‘Lady Friend’. |