Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gladstone collar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: glad-stone -col-lar
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Jasper scrambled to unlock the bottom drawer of the bureau, yank it open, take out a wrinkled shiny suit of black, a pair of black shoes, a small black bow tie, a Gladstone collar, a white shirt with starched bosom, […]"

Etymology

Popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Inflected Forms

Gladstone collars (plural)

Questions

What does gladstone collar mean?: A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie.
Where does gladstone collar come from?: Popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

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