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clerical collar
noun
A stiff white collar, having no opening at the front, fastened at the back, worn by members of the Christian clergy
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My dad wore his clerical collar.
Out of his clerical collar, he looks handsome, even "sexy".
He added he had not worn a clerical collar for over a decade.
Belasco's wears a clerical collar (as did the man), and the showgirl's wears a blue dress.
She wore her clerical collar and held a sign saying, "Equality now".
He urged Dignity to march in gay pride parades and marched himself, in his clerical collar.
And his most powerful tools are his matter-of-fact style — and his clerical collar.
He remembers when a clerical collar got you a free bus ride.
The doctor, who wore a clerical collar, listened to Mr. McManus's description of his earache.
They were to be unmarried, pious, non-political and suitably dressed, preferably in a clerical collar.
Why should wisdom and comfort inhabit a clerical collar instead of a lab coat?
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