Lexicographical Neighbors of Neckgear
Literary usage of Neckgear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Such, therefore, in the fitness of things, should have been the hat, and such
the neckgear of Benjamin Quelch ; and the veto of his wife only made him yearn ..."
2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... the collar or neckgear, suggesting something too big to swallow; by pulling
down the lower eyelid to suggest that the eyes are open or that there is ..."
3. Some Players: Personal Sketches by Amy Leslie (1900)
"... economically lifts his dress coat-tails when preparing to lounge in my lady's
boudoir, and wears startling neckgear and prodigious jewels. ..."
4. An American Cruiser in the East: Travels and Studies in the Far East; the by John Donaldson Ford (1898)
"Each one of the natives had a heavy watch-chain across the front of his waistcoat,
loud neckgear, pins, and finger-rings, which they took a great deal of ..."
5. Here & There & Everywhere: Reminiscences by Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood (1898)
"... after George IV had made all the men in love with small waists and flowing
neckgear. Lord Lamington has put them before us in the "Days of the Dandies. ..."
6. A Manual of Coaching by Fairman Rogers (1900)
"A white hunting scarf and collar, with some kind of a coaching pin, is the best
neckgear. A dark-grey coat is good ; as is also, ..."
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