NECKBAND • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Neckband

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

Neckband

noun

A band around the collar of a garment.

A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over. Synonym: collar.

Necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck. Synonyms: choker, collar, dog collar.

See images of 'Neckband'

Etymology of 'Neckband'

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Neckband" Quotes from Famous Books

... his nose. His nose was not precisely like the blacksmith's. It was high and Roman half-way down, but just there was a little dent, and the rest of the nose was straight. His complexion, excepting the freckles and charcoal, was chiefly sunburn, down to the neckband of his blue checked shirt. He was a tough, wiry-looking boy, and there was a kind of smiling, self-confident expression in his blue-gray eyes and around ...

— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard

... porch and went to his bedroom on the second floor. He undressed and he put on him his night wear, becoming a grotesque shrunken figure, what with his meager naked legs and his ashen eager face and thin dust-colored throat rising above the collarless neckband of the garment. He blew out the flame of the oil lamp which burned on a reading stand at the left side of his bed and extinguished the two candles which stood on a ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

Words linked to "Neckband" : ruffle, Roman collar, polo-neck collar, facing, rabato, band, neck opening, neck ruff, sweater, turtleneck collar, clerical collar, rebato, neck, ruff, jumper, banding, Eton collar, stripe, necklace, Peter Pan collar