bertha

What it means

1. A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress

In a sentence

You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton

1858, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish

Where it comes from

1. Frenchberthe
2. Englishbertha

Probably from French berthe, from the name Berthe (English Bertha).