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
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
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
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
It is indeed," agreed Mrs. Bateson; "Lucy Ellen said it seemed for all the world like heaven, to see so many ministers about, all in their black coats and white neckcloths.
From The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
As Brummel’s valet said of his master’s crumpled neckcloths: ‘These are our failures;’ in other words, they are the social miscarriages incidental to the strangeness of the new order.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Studs, neckcloths, bootjacks, silk socks, pins, underwear—all magically and eventually faded from my wardrobe, wafted to those silent bournes of swag that valets wot of.
From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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