ascot

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I should point out, here, that the biggest boosters of the athletic program at the Division III school I attended are probably a bunch of bankers in Los Angeles who also attended that school but whom I didn't really know there and noted alumnus and ascot - / football-aficionado

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  1. noun A broad neck scarf knotted so that its ends lie flat, one upon the other.

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  • So -- you can see we're in the ascot, which is always good. —  Steven Johnson on the Web as a city
  • Michael Johns-He should have been singing in this vein all along (sans the freaking ascot which was all too Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game for me). —  mjsbigblog
  • Sen. John McCain's recent attempts to reach out to this constituency by wearing an elegant silk ascot were not well received, having been described in most quarters as "pandering of the most contemptuous variety." —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
  • I should point out, here, that the biggest boosters of the athletic program at the Division III school I attended are probably a bunch of bankers in Los Angeles who also attended that school but whom I didn't really know there and noted alumnus and ascot - / football-aficionado —  Can't Stop The Bleeding
  • Seeing Christopher Guest as an ascot-sporting story reader or Ed Norton as a crooked, albeit honest, cop is more enjoyable than the story. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
 

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