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Businessman's attire
Answer for the clue "Businessman's attire ", 7 letters:
necktie
Alternative clues for the word necktie
Word definitions for necktie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1838, from neck (n.) + tie (n.). American English slang necktie party "a lynching" is recorded from 1871.
Usage examples of necktie.
Around us the afterwork social scene whirled in a montage of pastel neckties and white pantyhose and perfume and cologne and cocktails, and talk of StairMasters and group therapy and recent movies.
Karen said, looking right at Burdon, the dude Bureau man in his neat gray suit, pale blue shirt and necktie.
The darkey was bribed to this unwonted exertion by presents of neckties and other fancy articles which the Doctor sacrificed from his wardrobe.
Clothed in black suits, white shirts, and black neckties, holding their black derbies by their brims and turning their gappy smiles back and forth between Mrs.
He wore a suit of a bright mustard colour, a blue necktie, and a goldish watch-chain across his waistcoat.
Dick Hickock sat at his desk in his shirtsleeves, his necktie undone, the Wall Street Journal open before him, eating a huge sandwich.
His necktie was the blue-gray of a November sky, and its knot was plainly the outcome of a lordly carelessness combined with an accurate conception of the most recent dictum of fashion.
Once they were hired, employees had to observe dress guidelines, stipulating that they wear clean white shirts with sleeves neatly folded, a clean black necktie, clean patchless white pants, and a clean white apron free of stains.
There were cruel bruises and indentations on the flesh of her neck where the necktie had cut in, and she had the characteristic pinpoints of petechial hemorrhages on her face and in her eyes, which were common to strangulation victims.
He was shiny with nervous sweat, his eyes moved shiftily behind the glittering spectacles and his hands scampered about like frightened mice - running over his blotter or leaping up to adjust the knot of his necktie or smooth down the thin strands of hair on his polished cranium.
Here he had come upon the unlikely sight of two men, each wearing, with the overdetermination of a dream, a necktie and a mustache, embracing, their mustaches interlocked in a way that had reminded Sammy, for some reason, of the way his mother used to fit his comb into the bristles of the brush on top of his dresser when he was a kid.
Terry Fletcher felt after seeing that ancient petroglyph of the dancing flute player, Kokopelli, after seeing it painted on neckties and glazed on dog-food bowls.
Brighton Best Savings wearing a predesignated necktie at straight-up five.
Pausing, Joe Schilling straightened his wrinkled, old-fashioned necktie, smoothed his vest.
Him and his stupid yellow necktie standing in front of a mirror like a goddamn ape: that bourgeois Babbitt scoundrel.