1.   It was bright pillar-box red with a white lace collar and cuffs.

2.   The child had worn a purple suit with a lace collar.

3.   They threw their weight about with boisterous nonchalance while the girls, in frilly lace collars like doilies, tartan skirts and coloured tights, looked on admiringly.

4.   An immensely elongated figure in formal dress with lace collar and cuffs, Kant is the very image of intellectual acuity.

5.   A studio portrait taken a few years earlier showed them carefully coiffed and wearing identical dark dresses with white lace collars.

6.   But he learned English in the streets and in schools where the teachers, he recalled, were women in pince-nez and high lace collars.

7.   He wore a black cloak over his shoulder, a white shirt, and a fine lace collar.

8.   Important burghers, with their black satin suits and frilly lace collars, were natural subjects, but so also were maritime battles and elegant cityscapes.