neckcloth
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Dressed in a top hat, waistcoat and cravat neckcloth, Francis Scott Key - played by historical actor Fred Taylor - recited the lines of the famous poem to an eager audience Tuesday.
From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2020
In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one. a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he was very funny indeed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bulk of Composer Riegger's work is atonal�in fact, he was an atonalist back in the days before the tone row had replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Excited and apologizing, he got to it before it reached the neckcloth.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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