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neckcloth

/nek-klawth, -kloth/US // ˈnɛkˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ //UK // (ˈnɛkˌklɒθ) //

领巾,颈布,颈巾,领带

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural neck·cloths [nek-klawthz, -klothz, -klawths, -kloths]. /ˈnɛkˌklɔðz, -ˌklɒðz, -ˌklɔθs, -ˌklɒθs/. Obsolete.

    • : cravat.

Examples

  • She sent him a hand-knitted neckcloth (he had asked her to send him something made by her hands).

  • There may be no great danger yet; but a man can't be too careful when he wears a narrow neckcloth.

  • Running towards the old man, he and his wife quickly raised him and loosened his neckcloth.

  • This statue used to be decked out on the occasion of the procession in the long peruke and neckcloth of the reign of Charles II.

  • He was dressed in black; his hair was cropped and powdered, his shirt-collar open, and he wore no neckcloth.

  • Just then a hard hand was wrung into my neckcloth, and I felt myself dragged out of the water.