colla.
A team of dockworkers or stevedores
Meaning & usage
A team of dockworkers or stevedores
Where this word comes from
Probably borrowed from Catalan colla.
gorget (piece of armour for the throat)
Where this word comes from
Ultimately from Latin collum, however the o in place of the expected diphthong ue (compare inherited doublet cuello) implies borrowing from another Romance language; however, no other Romance language is known to have such a word with a similar sense.
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