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单词 neckcloth
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neckclothn.

Brit. /ˈnɛkklɒθ/, U.S. /ˈnɛkˌklɔθ/, /ˈnɛkˌklɑθ/
Forms: see neck n.1 and cloth n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: neck n.1, cloth n.
Etymology: < neck n.1 + cloth n.
1. A cloth worn round the neck (usually by a man); a cravat, neckerchief. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neckerchief
neckerchiefc1384
kerchiefc1400
neckercher1466
neckinger1573
napkin1590
neckcloth1598
neck-handkerchief1642
squeeze clout1795
throat cloth1871
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Panno collo, a neck-cloth.
1638 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 30 The Inventory of John Bryants goods [includes]... 2. neckclothes... 1 band... 1 cap.
1686 London Gaz. No. 2170/4 An open Flanders.lac'd Neckcloth.
1700 T. Pitt Let. 11 Feb. in W. Hedges Diary (1889) III. p. lxii I made a tryall of making some neck cloths here.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 1 Mar. His Man..puffs out his Neckcloth with as smart an Air as Mr. Any-body.
1784 Biographia Britannica (ed. 2) III. Corrigenda & Add. at Betterton His countenance..turned..as pale as his neckcloth.
1810 Splendid Follies II. 111 How she had tied her neck-cloth so natty, was quite a string of perplexities.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 65 In his neckcloth's studied fold Sat Fashion.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xvii. 75 He wore an old-fashioned neck-cloth.
1942–7 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1991) II. 269 A hawk-faced young man with a silvered bridle and a red neck-cloth..went up the canyon.
1969 A. S. Byatt in Passions of Mind (1993) xvi. 262 He had clean, starched neckcloths, perfectly cut plain clothes,..and, unusually, he washed.
1991 R. Goldstein Dark Sister ix. 161 The scalding tears that streamed..down a face disfigured by emotion and into a linen neckcloth.
2. colloquial and poetic. A hangman's rope or noose. Now rare. Cf. necklace n. 2a.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > parts of > noose or rope
ropeeOE
withec1275
cordc1330
snarea1425
tippet1447
girnc1480
halter1481
widdie1508
tether?a1513
hemp1532
Tyburn tippet1549
John Roper's window1552
neckweed1562
noose1567
horse-nightcap1593
tow1596
Tyburn tiffany1612
piccadill1615
snick-up1620
Tyburn piccadill1620
necklacea1625
squinsy1632
Welsh parsley1637
St. Johnston's riband1638
string1639
Bridport daggera1661
rope's end1663
cravat1680
swing1697
snecket1788
death cord1804
neckclothc1816
St. Johnston's tippet1816
death rope1824
mink1826
squeezer1836
yard-rope1850
necktie1866
Tyburn string1882
Stolypin's necktie1909
widdieneckc1920
c1816 W. Maher in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 79 Fa the neckcloth I don't care a button, And by this time to-morrow you'll see Your Larry will be dead.
1836 F. Mahony Reliques Father Prout II. 115 ‘Hould your tongue in that matter,’ says he; ‘For the neckcloth I don't care a button.’
1837 F. B. Head Narrative (1839) viii. 208 What could they be worth to him but a hempen neck-cloth?
1902 W. B. Yeats Cathleen ni Hoolihan 18 Yellow haired Donough is dead; With a hempen rope for a neckcloth And a white cloth on his head.

Derivatives

ˈneckclothed adj. wearing a neckcloth (also figurative).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing neckwear
collaredc1405
barbeda1529
ruffed1548
wimpled1579
quilled-up1694
starch-ruffed1783
cravatted1801
neckclothed1825
bandanaed1831
boa'd1831
black-tied1848
mufflered1859
white-collared1860
chokered1865
comfortered1880
tied1911
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] > hanged
yhongeOE
hanged1470
patibulated1656
gibbeted1756
neckclothed1825
sus. per coll.1827
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 36 The smiling, rosy-faced, well-powdered, neat-neck-clothed Mr. Abberly, and Miss Anstruther.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. vii. 62 In the panoply of neckclothed silence.
1864 Mattie, a Stray I. 133 White neckclothed servility struggled..for the distinction of waiting on her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> as lemmas

neck-cloth
b. With attribute expressing purpose: as altar-cloth, barm-cloth, board-cloth, bolt-cloth, bolting-cloth, chrism-cloth, loin-cloth, neck-cloth, tablecloth, etc. See these words.
To this head belong the earliest recorded examples of the word, among which are Old English cildcláð child-cloth, swaddling cloth, flyhteclað patch.
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a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 491 Commisura (= patch) flycticlað.
a800 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 623 Cunae, cildclaðas.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 124/30) Cune, cildclaðes.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Wr.-W. 127/2) Mappula bearmclað.
extracted from clothn.
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