What is "neckcloth"

Usage examples of "neckcloth".

I encountered Bowland in the upper passage yesterday with his arm draped over with fresh neckcloths.

A tall young man, with light hair, clear gray eyes, and thin and compressed lips, dressed in a blue coat with beautifully carved gold buttons, a white neckcloth, and a tortoiseshell eye-glass suspended by a silken thread, and which, by an effort of the superciliary and zygomatic muscles, he fixed in his eye, entered, with a half-official air, without smiling or speaking.

Chiao Tai pulled his neckcloth over his nose and mouth so as not to soil the blade with his breath.

Then he joined Chiao Tai under the porch and rubbed himself dry with his neckcloth.

She gave Christopher a damp linen sheet and me a pile of wettish neckcloths.

Captain Barker, left alone, rearranged his neckcloth, contemplated his crooked legs for a moment with some disgust, and began to trot up and down the grass-plot, whistling the while with great energy and no regard for tune.

Tredlow, a rumpled little man in wrinkled breeches and a poorly tied, unstarched neckcloth, paused in the act of dusting a statue of a lascivious-looking Pan and peered at them through the lenses of his spectacles.

Edmund Tredlow, a rumpled little man in wrinkled breeches and a poorly tied, unstarched neckcloth, paused in the act of dusting a statue of a lascivious-looking Pan and peered at them through the lenses of his spectacles.

Jacelyn noted, with muscle-contoured black satin knee-breeches, wellfitted midnight-blue coat, sparkling white linens, a small black pearl in his intricate neckcloth, and blond curls casually brushed.

Then he joined Chiao Tai under the porch and rubbed himself dry with his neckcloth.

He looked down on the muddy pawprints on his fawn breeches, the pulled threads on his dragonfly-embroidered waistcoat, the dog drool on his limpened neckcloth.

There was young Tom Blaize at the station, in his Sunday beaver and gala waistcoat and neckcloth, coming the lord over Tom Bakewell, who had preceded his master in charge of the baggage.

The Viscount was wearing the coat, the buckskin breeches, and the top boots which were the correct morning-attire for any gentleman sojourning in the country, but a certain elegance, deriving from the cut of his coat, and the arrangement of his neckcloth, gave his father an excuse for apostrophizing him as a damned dandy.

Mud had generously splashed his breeches and plain buff coat, and his neckcloth was crumpled and limp.

He looked again at his drinking companion, noticing the fine cut of his coat and the excellent white silk of his neckcloth.