collarbone

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collarbone

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From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.

noun collarbones · collar-bone · collar bone

The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone. The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.
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@misc{collarbone_2026,
  title = {collarbone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/collarbone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}