neckcloth
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neckcloths
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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
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
Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat.
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
A rule was that only red caps, yarn and Irish stockings, blue shirts, white shirts, cotton waistcoats, cotton drawers, neat leather flat-heeled shoes, blue neckcloths, canvas suits, and rugs were to be sold to them.
From The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke
I have spoken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bird’s-eye neckcloths; and each understood the word “facts” in an occult sense of his own.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mrs. Palmer was radiant sitting between two white neckcloths: one belonged to the Viscount Portcullis, the other to the faithful Witherington; and she managed to talk to them both at once.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
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