Dickey

/ˈdɪki/

Synonyms for "dickey" (28 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Noun(4 words)
shirtfrontbibdetachable shirtfrontdickey-seat

Strong matches (8)

Related words (14)

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3 entries
bib insertcollar insertshirtfront

Collocations

5 entries
19th century fashioncollar substitutedetachable shirtfrontfalse shirtfrontshirtfront accessory

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.

Source: wiktionary

Every Sunday night at eight o'clock punctually the form of David Emmons, arrayed in his best clothes, with his stiff white dickey, and a nosegay in his buttonhole, was seen to advance up the road toward Maria Brewster's, as he had been seen to advance every Sunday night for the last twenty-five years, but that was all.

Source: wiktionary

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