His stiff collar chafed the back of his neck raw.

"I think your slave's collar is chafing you, in a fashion that does not trouble your shipmates-because they were born with theirs and you were once free."

As they emerged into the main hallway, she rubbed her neck where the collar had chafed it, wondering if she hadn't exchanged a bad fate for a worse one.

In this heat, the collar of his dress uniform, which had always fretted him, chafed even worse than usual.

But there are rumors. . . ." Chen turned his head abruptly, the stiff collar of his jacket chafing his neck.

He touched them reassuringly, hiding his wince at the way the collars chafed their throats.

It was pneumonia, and, he said, a peculiar erysipelas, which had started under the chin where the collar chafed, and was spreading over the face.

Alexis has been demoted a rank for his part in this mess; he's back to lieutenant colonel now, and I think the red collar chafes him.

Each swallow was painful, and the collar of his turtleneck chafed his bruised neck.

The new collar, which can be worn up or down, does not chafe the neck.