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Definition of Neckbands
1. neckband [n] - See also: neckband
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neckbands
Literary usage of Neckbands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Home Work in Massachusetts by Amy Hewes, Women's Educational and Industrial Union (Boston, Mass.). Dept. of Research, Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1915)
"Turning collars, cuffs and neckbands is unskilled work. The materials are given
out from the factories in bundles of a dozen or a dozen pairs just as they ..."
2. Labor Bulletin by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1914)
"The work given out is turning collars, cuffs, neckbands and facings and making
buttonholes and ... Turning collars, cuffs and neckbands is unskilled work. ..."
3. Jokes for All Occasions (1922)
"It appeared to her that the neckbands worn by the Doctor were longer than was
fitting. She therefore took occasion to visit the clergyman, and harangued him ..."
4. Vocations for the Trained Woman; Opportunities Other Than Teaching by Agnes Frances Perkins (1915)
"The work given out is turning collars, cuffs, neckbands and facings and making
buttonholes and ... Turning collars, cuffs and neckbands is unskilled work. ..."
5. Woollen and Worsted Cloth Manufacture: Being a Practical Treatise for the by Roberts Beaumont (1890)
"For example. the harness cords of the neckbands of the uprights w1, w2, w3, w*,
always take the first series of holes of each repeat in the comber-board c ..."
6. Studies in Economic Relations of Women by Dept. of Research (1915)
"Turning shirt collars, $0.02$ and $0.02fa dozen. Turning shirt cuffs, 01$ to .05 a
dozen pairs. Turning shirt neckbands, 01$ to . 03$ a dozen. ..."
7. The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse by William Ridgeway (1905)
"Some of them are said to live, like the Troglodytes, in caves dug in the ground."
The neckbands of the Libyan horses remind us at once of the practice of ..."
8. Military Hygiene, for Officers of the Line by Alfred Alexander Woodhull (1909)
"Tight shirt-collars and tight neckbands, as well as tight standing collars ...
They should not be worn neckbands and the neck should be kept free from the ..."
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