neckband

[ nek-band ]

/ ˈnɛkˌbænd /

a band of cloth at the neck of a garment.

a band, especially one of ornamental design, worn around the neck, affixed to a bottle, etc.

Origin of neckband

First recorded in 1400–50, neckband is from the late Middle English word nekband. See neck, band²

To her bare arms the beads of his neckband seemed very cold.

Abbe Mouret's Transgression |Emile Zola
He took off his collar and turned in the neckband of his shirt.

Half Portions |Edna Ferber
The dividing line between washed and unwashed was one inch above his neckband and two above his wrists.

Dust |Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
The judge swathed him with one of Mrs. Penniman's aprons, crowding folds of it inside his neckband.

The Wrong Twin |Harry Leon Wilson

This merely was Nature's warning to a man with a size seventeen neckband and a forty-six-inch girth measurement.

Sundry Accounts |Irvin S. Cobb

neckband

/ (ˈnɛkˌbænd) /

a band around the neck of a garment as finishing, decoration, or a base for a collar