Gladstone collars
Gladstone collars is the plural of Gladstone collar.
Meaning of Gladstone collar
Noun
Gladstone collar (plural Gladstone collars)
- A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie.
- Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 80
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- What is Gladstone collars the plural of?
- Gladstone collars is the plural of Gladstone collar.
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