Meaning of Gladstone collar | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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, […]”

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