Definitions
A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress
Word origin
Definitely from Old English Berþa as a result of metathesis of h, from earlier Old English Berhte (“bright one”), influence of Latin Bercta.
Used in a sentence
“You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton”
“Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha, which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Wide lace collar”6 letters
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