collarless

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a garment, having no collar.

   “Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them.”

   “He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis.”

2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.

   “The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]”

   “He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven.”

3. (not-comparable)Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.

   “I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog.”

   “I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.”