neck-stock

In deference to the seventh day, he exchanged his shirt of blue cotton for a white, well-starched linen one, and donned a high black lasting neck-stock and dark vest, and shaved his face so clean that it reflected his own sunshine if not the solar ray.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

The union between his head and body was made, apparently, by a high, stiff, black neck-stock.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

He wore the high, black-silk neck-stock and the double-breasted frock-coat of his youthful times during his thirty years 'career in the Senate, varying with the seasons the materials of which his pantaloons were made, but never the fashion in which they were cut.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

Needless to say, Flashman has the ceremonial off pat, even to the curious triple coffin and the water front procession, [p. 9] [7] There must have been 250 of these boxes, each containing 2000 dollars, according to the cash account of the Treasury Officer to the expedition, [p. 12] [8] A Bootneck or Leatherneck is a Royal Marine, supposedly so-called from the leather tab securing the uniform collar in the nine teenth century, or possibly from the leather neck-stock.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

He is, perhaps, a gentleman of somewhat stunted growth, but of full habit, and somewhat noticeably red between the ear and the neck-stock? "

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903