Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A neckerchief; a cravat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then Mrs. Bonner invested money in some bargains in linen-drapery, which might be useful at the Clavering Arms, and bought a red and yellow neck-handkerchief, which Blanche could see at once was intended for Mr. Lightfoot.
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The constables, also, discovered, between the bed and sacking of the unhappy man, a shirt and neck-handkerchief both marked with the initials of his name, and both hideously besmeared with the blood of the victim.
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He had on a blue satin waistcoat, a blue neck-handkerchief which was fastened beneath his throat with a coral ring, and very loose blue trousers which almost concealed his feet.
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Spoon Hall for that coat and the coloured neck-handkerchief on the previous day; and someone, most maliciously, told the story abroad.
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So the page hunted hither and thither, but Fanfaronade was no more to be found than the Princess, the dagger, or the neck-handkerchief!
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And the Queen asked for her neck-handkerchief, that she might look smart.
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I remember to have met with a sentence, in a book of education, that made me smile: βIt would be needless to caution you against putting your hand, by chance, under your neck-handkerchief, for a modest woman never did so!β
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Take off his neck-handkerchief, Harcourt, and run you, Riches, to the stream close by, where we first sat down, and get some water.
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Opening her neck-handkerchief she told him to shoot if he dared.
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It was with a vivid impression of Charliet's none too clean neck-handkerchief playing
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