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neckerchiefed en · ADJ

Etymology

From neckerchief + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a neckerchief.
   • Suffice it to say, that I plunged deeper and deeper into the Heliconian stream; sonnet following sonnet with such celerity, that long before a month was over my head, I was transformed from a sedate, white cravatted clerk, into a sighing, careless, open collared, black neckerchiefed, ballad-monger. 1836 December, “My Poem!”, in The Lady’s Magazine & Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IX, Dobbs & C.ͦ, page 259:
   • The proprietors probably think that their good things can recommend themselves to their fair costumers; that a puff can speak for itself, and that ices are too pleasant to require the insinuating address of a white-neckerchiefed, ringletted youth for their disposal. 1844, Angus B[ethune] Reach, “The Philosophy of Shops”, in Douglas [William] Jerrold, editor, The Illuminated Magazine, volume III, London: […] the Proprietors, […], page 321:
   • Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.” 1844, [John Mills], chapter XXIV, in D’Horsay; or, The Follies of the Day, London: William Strange, […], page 146:
   • It is impossible not to smile at seeing them on a holiday in the dog-days, cumbered with an extraordinary superfluity of petticoats, and coifed and neckerchiefed up to the throat. 1840, [William Bilton], “Introductory—Reasons for writing—Interest of a Tour in Norway—[…]”, in Two Summers in Norway, volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 28:
   • Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.” 2007 January 6, Denise Snodell, “Hot Toy Hunt Ends in Serendipity”, in Lee’s Summit/Southland Neighborhood News (The Kansas City Star), page 2:
   • Chorion, the media content group which owns the rights to Noddy and other Enid Blyton characters, will announce this morning that the neckerchiefed boy has won a landmark deal in China. 2004 March 15, The Independent, number 5,431, page 21:

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