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- noun Plural form of
neckerchief .
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Examples
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The eastern lads were given complete outfits, from the rather awkward high-heeled boots to the broad-brimmed range hats, and they wore their handkerchiefs, or "neckerchiefs," most proudly.
The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X Willard F. Baker
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The street was filled with hundreds of people dressed in white wearing red waistbands or red neckerchiefs or both.
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But in the summertime, I wear a lot of neckerchiefs.
Barneys New York's Simon Doonan on the Bow Tie—Its Comeback, Characteristics and Caveats Natalia Rachlin 2011
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I took the neckerchiefs and cut squares or pieced them together (with the smaller ones to make the squares), used flannel for the backing and cotton batting to quilt.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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The street was filled with hundreds of people dressed in white wearing red waistbands or red neckerchiefs or both.
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The street was filled with hundreds of people dressed in white wearing red waistbands or red neckerchiefs or both.
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Hayley and her neckerchiefs are real and together they are going to help Dean and Maxine face their fear of coming off benefits (a justifiable anxiety given the temporary nature of the jobs on offer and the six weeks it takes to process a new claim) and bolster their self-confidence.
TV review: Between Life and Death and The Fairy Jobmother 2010
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A group of young punk-rockers wearing neckerchiefs named Mein Kampfire.
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Purpling historians starch neckerchiefs/buff ploughs in preparation for latest "living history" wow-fayre
Catchup TV: the turn-ons and turn-offs Sarah Dempster 2010
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Bands parading around playing as loudly as possible, surging throngs of Basques in all white with red neckerchiefs, talking and laughing and hugging everyone they came across.
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