Meanings
plural Gladstone collars
- A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie.
Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 801 more example
Jasper scrambled to unlock the bottom drawer of the bureau, yank it open, take out a wrinkled shiny suit of black, a pair of black shoes, a small black bow tie, a Gladstone collar, a white shirt with starched bosom, […]
1918, Sinclair Lewis, The Willow Walk
Origin
Popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
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