neckcloth
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neckcloths
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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
Excited and apologizing, he got to it before it reached the neckcloth.
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
Their previous agreement was—to look out for the white neckcloths, such being the best mark by which they could distinguish, in the dark, individuals likely to carry any property worthy of being taken.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
Their costume was extraordinary, for they appeared in public in blue riding-habits, men's neckcloths, and high hats, with their hair cropped short.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
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
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