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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

But the art of neckcloths was once more than a dubious title to renown in the world of Bond Street.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

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 Cook, Joel

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis