crew neck
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crew neck
- /ˈkɹuˌnɛk/
adjective crewneck
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Referring to the collar of pullover garments and usually of sweaters and T-shirts, when [the collar] circles the neck.
The designer herself was wearing tailored caramel-coloured trousers with a toning crew neck knit, because “it’s work, and I have too much to do to get dressed up”.
Similar: crewnecked
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Referring to a garment's collar whose front is meant to ride up onto the neck, sometimes to Adam's apple level.
Similar: high crew
noun crew necks · crewneck
- A round neckline with a ribbed texture. For a writer celebrated for his control of his characters’ inner lives, for a husband and father notoriously prickly about his expression of the suburban proprieties — the crewneck Shetland sweater and khakis, the plummy faux-Brahmin accent, the adoring Labrador at his feet, the woodpile neatly stac
- A shirt, sweater, or similar garment with such a neckline.
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title = {crew neck},
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