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Attire > Religious attire > Clerical colar
PREFERRED TERM
Clerical colar  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Middle English "coler" and French "colier". It is a white stiff upright collar used by bishops, priest, deacons in some churches or religions, as Christians among others.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
  • clergy collar
  • roman collar
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010. Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Col romain

French

Collarino

Italian

Collarín

Spanish

alzacuellos
URI
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