falling collar
English
Noun
falling collar (plural falling collars)
- A wide collar which lies flat
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 26:
- He flung the cloak most melodramatically over his left arm—took off the plumed hat, whose white feathers swept the floor—shewed a pair of silver-mounted pistols, and a dark-blue doublet laced with crimson and gold, and a worked falling collar.