A high-necked blouse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A high-necked silk blouse left hanging in a wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
The dress was high-necked and hung straight to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
At least the evening dress was high-necked and long-sleeved. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Goldie adjusted the high-necked collar of her oldfashioned dress. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Who could doubt the purity of a girl in a high-necked Laura Ashley?. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
In it, she wears a high-necked green tunic, and a thin golden chain. From Wordnik.com. [Scion of Cyador]
The serving women wore dark, high-necked dresses and short white aprons. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
It was a high-waisted, high-necked, long-sleeved dress with no adornments. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Dangerous]
While wearing a high-necked black top, with a tight skirt slit in the back. From Wordnik.com. [Monah Li: Dress Yourself in Confidence] Reference
The girl was in her customary high-necked frock, old Jolyon had not dressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Property] Reference
My clothes might pass, but not her long, high-necked dress and piled-up hair. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
As always, Therese was supremely well dressed in a high-necked maroon silk gown. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
This should be high-necked, long-sleeved, and made to come well down over the ankles. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Her high-necked dresses looked like they could've come straight out of a sci-fi movie. From Wordnik.com. [Berlin Brings Out the Bizarre and Beautiful] Reference
Sarah was wearing an apron over a high-necked dress, her wrinkled face set in a scowl. From Wordnik.com. [Maura's Game]
It fit rather snugly across her breasts and was high-necked, with long flowing sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Warrior]
She was wearing trousers and a matching jacket in fine tweed with a high-necked jumper. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
Fifty years ago we had Grace Kelly, resplendent and demure in her high-necked lace gown. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Don’t’] Reference
Blanche looks preoccupied, perhaps a little nervous, in her high-necked white silk dress. From Wordnik.com. [Camp Wonder] Reference
Two legs slid out and then a body, clad in dirty overalls and a thick high-necked jumper. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
She sat down on the very edge of the bed, her high-necked robe wrapped tightly around her. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
I saw myself in a long skirt and a high-necked lace blouse with my hair piled up on my head. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
She was beautiful in a dress, although the blue garment was high-necked and without adornment. From Wordnik.com. [Wyoming Territory]
It was modest, though, as modest as a Mennonite, high-necked, with a skirt well below the knee. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
Bonnie in the kitchen, with a long-sleeved, high-necked gingham apron on, frying doughnuts or baking waffles. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
One wore the shallow helmet, high-necked khaki blouse, and roll-puttees of a First World War American uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
On the first of these occasions this independent young lady was dressed simply in a high-necked gown and a hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
If a lady naturally inclines to high-necked dresses and collars, she will keep her secrets to herself if she has any. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The second lady was wearing a high-necked dress of pearl-grey, and a light silk kerchief was wound round her supple neck. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
She slumped on to the dark divan on which he had first seen her, an enigmatic figure in her high-necked black velvet dress. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
No chiseled chins propped atop untied ties; no silver flecked tri-athletes in high-necked sweaters; no jeans; no jackets; no nuthin. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kensler: What Lindsay's Nipples Are Hiding] Reference
She was a fleshy woman with elaborately curled red-gold hair Somewhere she had actually managed to find streith for her high-necked gown. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Aviendha sat by her side, but on the floor, legs folded beneath the skirt of a high-necked dress that almost matched the pale green tile. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
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