Sentence:  "When we first forgathered, I was sitting on the floor with a chair round my neck." "Like an Elizabethan <WSD>ruff</WSD>, as worn by Thomas Botway." "Otway," I said stiffly. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, "especially" a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).