boa

• To a complete dress there also belong a skin neckerchief or boa, and a neck covering of multiple reindeer-skins, or of different kinds of skins sewn together in chess-board-like squares. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• It had a tail like a boa-constrictor; its body was like I do not care what; and it had three separate heads, one of which was a lion's, the second a goat's, and the third an abominably great snake's. —  My First Cruise and Other stories
• That feather from the boa, and the perfume, were sufficient evidence of her visit Yet why had Barker remained in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly Circus if sent by his master with a message to Richmond? —  The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
• Every woman who can tell a silvered fox-stole from a cock's-feather boa is aware that a silvered fox-stole simply cannot be sold for a guinea. —  Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
• "But you speak English, for I have heard you do it; and I have about forgotten my native brogue If the boa is a snake, he is the fellow I want to see," replied Felix There's one of them now!" —  Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East

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