clerical collar
Example Sentences
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In his Halloween paso doble showcase, he wore a clerical collar and forewent grease paint or creepy contacts, relying on wide-eyed expressions and a low-slung layer of fake fog to hide his relatively clumsy footwork.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
“I was wearing my clerical collar, a big old cross necklace, you know, basically everything that you can to identify yourself as not exactly a rioter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
Asked if he continued to wear a clerical collar, he again said he had not been given “any instructions about that.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2022
In police body-camera footage obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Lee can be seen wearing a clerical collar and sitting in a red sedan parked near Ms. Freeman’s suburban home on Dec. 15, 2020.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022
The door opens and a Negro man stands there looking at me, his white clerical collar gleaming.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
