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- noun Plural form of
necktie .
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Examples
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Thieves in neckties need huge oversight, and prison cells.
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There are also other people who like to give advice about what to wear — thin neckties are out and so on.
Guest Post: What’s the Logic of Language? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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And his neckties will be the envy of all the men i n the country.
Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971
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In many of the castles were hateful and grim things called neckties, which two or three men had enough to do to carry.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
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He has refused even small gifts, such as neckties, from visiting oil executives, he says.
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Howells were not satisfied with the kind of neckties that Mark
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Aldrich and Howells were not satisfied with the kind of neckties that Mark Twain wore (the old-fashioned black "string" tie, a Western survival), so they made him
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Aldrich and Howells were not satisfied with the kind of neckties that Mark Twain wore (the old-fashioned black "string" tie, a Western survival), so they made him a present of two cravats when he set out on his return for Hartford.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Members of a local citizens 'group have been hand-weaving the silk processed at Miyasaka to make sundries such as neckties and table mats for the past three years in an attempt to sell them to European countries.
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Members of a local citizens 'group have been hand-weaving the silk processed at Miyasaka to make sundries such as neckties and table mats for the past three years in an attempt to sell them to European countries.
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