Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chain, ribbon, or cord fastened to a watch, and either passed around the neck or secured to some part of the clothing.
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Examples
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He shut it up; he locked it in with a small key attached to his watch-guard; he restored the other papers to order, closed the repository, and sat down without further remark.
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Behold him in pepper-and-salt pantaloons, with his watch-guard round his neck.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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He touches with a delicate hand his watch-guard, we see two sharp, lecherous eyes peering through the domino; he folds his arms and pauses a few seconds, as if to survey the metal of her companion, then crosses and recrosses her path.
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"I think you will," he answered, playing with his watch-guard.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Her old-fashioned silver watch is a family heirloom, and a broad black ribbon is her only watch-guard.
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn J. W. Keyworth
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His left elbow rested on the corner of the mantel, the fingers of his right hand played with the gold watch-guard he wore.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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He then slipped it on his watch-guard, prepared boldly to face a term of ten weeks without a stiver.
Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson
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A gentleman of this city is in possession of a very curious and elaborate watch-guard made of the Hairs of ANNEKE JANS.
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Not many minutes elapsed before, kneeling upon his knees, she was stroking his tawny beard and plaiting it in threes, pulling his long moustache, playing with his watch-guard, and laughing in his face with the pretty audacity of six.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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I have gathered a small bouquet, which I will put in the letter; I also send by Uncle Jimmie a tobacco bag, and a watch-guard, made out of horse hair, and a woolen hood, knit with my own hands, with love and best respects.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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