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collar-day
A day on which Knights wear the collar of their Order, when taking part in any court ceremony.
1637Garrard in Strafford's Lett. (1739) II. 85 Two Pillories were erected, and there the Sentence of Star-Chamber against Burton, Bastwick, and Prynne was executed..Bastwick told the People, the Lords had Collar-days at Court, but this was his Collar-day, rejoycing much in it. 1662Pepys Diary 29 Sept., It being Collar-day, we had no time to talk with him about any business. 1662–3Ibid. 2 Feb., It being a collar-day, it being Candlemas-day. 1707Miège State Gt. Brit. i. 400 The Queen has also Collar-Days, (that is, Days when she wears the Collar of the Garter). 1764Low Life 56 This being Whitsunday and consequently Collar Day at Court. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. in Paris vi. 73 Like Knights, too, we've our collar days. |