neckcloth
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Origin of 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
Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As I let myself be drawn into the shop, he bustled around, pulling out scissors and combs and a fresh neckcloth.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
He studied me in the mirror now that he had me covered with the striped neckcloth, and I saw a frown of faint recognition.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men came out of barber shops with lathered faces, their neckcloths hanging, to watch and comment in hushed voices.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Jos had sunk in a chair—he had torn off his neckcloths, and turned down his collars, and was sitting with both his hands lifted to his throat.
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Reaching the landing he crossed a small gallery, where hung portraits of historic Virginians—governors in periwigs and lace ruffles and statesmen of a later age in high neckcloths.
From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
Walker insisted upon loaning both of us neckcloths, and Pike various other articles of dress suitable to the occasion.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
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