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- noun Plural form of
bowtie .
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Examples
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No, the real reason that the Yogi Bear movie should never be made is because we need to stop perpetrating the myth that bears are slick-talking hucksters with a fondness for picnic baskets and small gay-seeming companions in bowties who act as a sort of external conscience.
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My penchant for tweed jackets and bowties is an ironic comment on depictions of professors in art, not actual professors I have known.
Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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My penchant for tweed jackets and bowties is an ironic comment on depictions of professors in art, not actual professors I have known.
Life imitates art Richard Nokes 2005
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For this dish you will need a special type of pasta called "bowties".
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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For this dish you will need a special type of pasta called "bowties".
Tuna Pasta 2005
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No - but I've seen worse "bowties" handed out as well.
phillyBurbs.com 2008
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It was worth the trek down to your end of the exhibition hall, Roger -- though, really, if the clothing vendors are going to score a plum spot right next to the Horn Book booth, they at least ought to capitalize on it by offering commemorative bowties.
Back from TLA, Roger Sutton 2009
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Kanye's early collegiate style was responsible for the British high street's love of cardigans and bowties – AKA men dressing like their granddad.
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Morris Lapidus who was the Architect of the hotel was always wearing bowties so that's why the floor has the bowtie pattern.
Jordana Zizmor: A Trip to the Fontainebleau in Miami Jordana Zizmor 2011
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Behind the waiter stood two very large persons in black suits with black bowties.
Cucumbertini Larry Strattner 2011
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