neckcloths
- plural of neckcloth.
Example Sentences
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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
In return, they received an intimation that they must be in the ante-room of the suite of receiving-rooms at eight o'clock on such an evening—ladies in ball-dress; gentlemen in evening-dress with white neckcloths.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
He found laid out also clean shirts and neckcloths.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
