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Definition of Open-collared
1. Adjective. Of a shirt; not buttoned at the neck. "Dressed casually in shorts and an open-collared shirt"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Open-collared
Literary usage of Open-collared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"... pathetic tone that vibrated as it went to the heart« of those who bad any
taste, and made them vibrate. The young men, open-collared ..."
2. A History of American Literature by Percy Holmes Boynton (1919)
"It is maintained in their conscious personal picturesqueness: Whitman gray-bearded,
open-collared, wearing his hat indoors or out; Mark Twain in his white ..."
3. Tales of the Southern Border by Charles Wilkins Webber (1853)
"This is namby-pamby stuff, and might do for some open-collared Byron-struck sop
o' moonshine of a country village, who flourishes a whalebone cane, ..."
4. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1843)
"And there 's the turf on which they play, And tan their open-collared necks ;
And there's the brook, where, every day, Their paper barks meet sad shipwrecks ..."
5. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1844)
"And there 's the turf on which they play, And tan their open-collared necks ;
And there's the brook, whore, every day, Their paper barks meet sad shipwrecks ..."
6. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1873)
"And there 's the turf on which they play, And tan their open-collared necks ;
And there's the brook, where, every day, Their paper barks meet sad shipwrecks ..."
7. Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland by Charles Samuel Stewart (1834)
"... and the trimly fitted while-topped boots, characteristic of the class in most
parts of the kingdom, would meet a slouched hat, an open-collared neck, ..."
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