dickey

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Berry climbed out of the dickey, and Adèle and Daphne got out of the car.

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  1. noun A woman's blouse front worn under a suit jacket or low-necked garment.
  2. noun A man's detachable shirt front.
  3. noun A collar for a shirt.

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  • Obviously not a fake turtleneck (aka a dickey) as it can be seen poking out a shirtsleeve, —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • There were sometimes two, sometimes one seat outside, called the box and the dickey--much the pleasantest places, for it was very easy to feel sick and giddy inside. —  Old Times at Otterbourne
  • They have been altered and provided with a modern "dickey"--I should say, front--which rather hides their antiquity. —  A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
  • Groundsel for your dickey-birds To think that there are people who get up at that unearthly hour to buy groundsel for their canaries! —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Walter's foot was on the step; but before the Corporal mounted the rumbling dickey, that invaluable domestic hemmed thrice And had you time, Sir, to think of poor Jacob, and look at the cottage, and slip in a word to your uncle about the bit tato ground We pass over the space of time, short in fact, long in suffering, that elapsed, till the prisoner and his companions reached Knaresbro'. —  Eugene Aram — Complete
 

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  1. From diminutive of Dick, nickname for Richard.
 

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/ˈdɪki/
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