NECKCLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neckcloth mean? 

• NECKCLOTH (noun)
  The noun NECKCLOTH has 1 sense:

1. an ornamental white cravat

  Familiarity information: NECKCLOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NECKCLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ornamental white cravat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

neckcloth; stock

Hypernyms ("neckcloth" is a kind of...):

cravat (neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front)

 Context examples 

The face of our unpleasant little visitor turned as white as his neckcloth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was dressed in a single-breasted black coat buttoned up, a pair of leather pantaloons stretched tightly across his broad thighs, polished Hessian boots, and a huge white neckcloth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I look from Mr. Chillip, in his Sunday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place it would be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with another boy coming up the stairs to attack it, and having the velvet cushion with the tassels thrown down on his head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trousers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckcloth looked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (I call to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)