encolor, encolour (enkulor)

t. [ encolpion, encolpium (en-kol'pi-on, -um), n.; pl. encolpia (-a). [LGr. ἐγκόλπιον, prop. neut. of ἐγκόλπιος, on the bosom, encolure (F. pron. on-ko-lür'), n. [F., the neck and shoulders, OF. encolure, encoleure, a neck of land, an isthmus (cf. encoler, put on the neck, embrace), Hair in heaps lay heavily Over a pale brow spirit-pure, Carved like the heart of the coal-black tree, Crisped like a war-steed's encolure. Browning, Statue and Bust. 2. The opening at the neck of a dre , and also that at the armhole to receive the top of the sleeve. Dict. of Needlework.