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Peter Pan collar

noun

  1. a close-fitting flat or rolled collar with rounded ends that meet in front of a high, round neckline.


Peter Pan collar

noun

  1. a collar on a round neck, having two rounded ends at the front
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Peter Pan collar1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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Wearing a pin-striped shirt with an embroidered Peter Pan collar — “I dress like a kindergartener,” she says with a laugh — Laufey sat down at the Bowl on a recent afternoon for a wide-ranging chat in the same dressing room she used the night of her concert.

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Metzelaar’s 6-year-old self stared back: Half smile, questioning eyes, Peter Pan collar over a sweater.

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From the wedding emerged a now-legendary photo of the actress on the arm of her new husband, wearing a pink and white gingham dress with a lacy Peter Pan collar.

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His hair is mussed and he’s wearing wide-leg denim trousers and an ivory babydoll top with a Peter Pan collar.

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In this, her makeover is like a version 2.0 of the techniques employed by Winona Ryder in her 2002 shoplifting trial, when she wore a Marc Jacobs outfit that made her look like a polite schoolgirl, complete with a Peter Pan collar, as well as assorted discreet knee-length hemlines and headbands; or Anna Sorokin, the society grifter who, in the final days of her 2019 trial, wore sweet baby-doll dresses that practically blared “innocent.”

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