neckcloth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a cloth worn around the neck, especially an ornamental cravat worn by men in earlier periods

   He tied a clean white neckcloth before putting on his coat.

An English compound of neck and cloth. It became a general name for cloth neckwear and especially for the folded or tied cravats worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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