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Elizabethan collars

Elizabethan collars is the plural of Elizabethan collar.

Meaning of Elizabethan collar

Noun

Elizabethan collar (plural Elizabethan collars)

  1. (historical) A fluted frill worn at the neck; a ruff.
  2. (figuratively) A protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or a dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.

Questions about Elizabethan collars

What is Elizabethan collars the plural of?
Elizabethan collars is the plural of Elizabethan collar.

Words near Elizabethan collars in the dictionary

  1. Elizabeth Tower
  2. Elizabeth Town
  3. Elizabetha
  4. Elizabethan
  5. Elizabethan collar
  6. Elizabethan collars
  7. Elizabethan English
  8. Elizabethan sonnet
  9. Elizabethan sonnets
  10. Elizabethana
  11. Elizabethanise

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