collar-dayn.
A day on which Knights wear the collar of their Order, when taking part in any court ceremony.
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1637 G. Garrard Let. 24 July in Earl of Strafford Lett. & Disp. (1739) II. 85 Two Pillories were erected, and there the Sentence of Star-Chamber against Burton, Bastwick, and Prynne was executed:..Bastwick told the People, the Lords had Collar-days at Court, but this was his Collar-day, rejoycing much in it.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 29 Sept. (1970) III. 207 It being Collar day—we had no time to talk with him about any business.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 2 Feb. (1971) IV. 31 It being Coller-day, it being Candlemas-day.
1707 G. Miège Present State Great Brit. i. 400 The Queen has also Collar-Days, (that is, Days when she wears the Collar of the Garter).
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 56 This being Whitsunday and consequently Collar Day at Court.
1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi. 73 Like Knights, too, we've our collar days.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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