A piece of armour protecting the neck, upon which the helmet fitted; a neck-piece. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A helmet with a visor, so fitted to the gorget or neck-piece, that the head could be turned without exposing the neck. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The draped black dress was topped with an ornate shoulder-and neck-piece. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He had a valet, one of the Hermans, to help him with dressing; the Herman wrapped Figg's neck-piece for evening wear and adjusted his toe-boots to perfection. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But a Haspur's hearing was as sharp as that of any owl, and T'fyrr was positive from the bland expression on Harperus 'face that the Deliambren had some device rigged up inside that bizarre head - and neck-piece he sported that gave him the same aural advantage. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)
They were glad to drink their morning coffee and eat their lunch before the fire, and Mary's little sable neck-piece, relic of former opulence, appeared in the evenings when they sought their dinner. ❋ Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (N/A)
It's one of the tails off Martha's fur neck-piece. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
"How cold it is!" exclaimed Grace Ford, wrapping closer about her a fur neck-piece, and plunging her gloved hands deeper into the pockets of her maroon sweater. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
Put neck-piece, heart, liver, gizzard, and back pieces in center of dish; put 2 pieces of breast on top, second joints on one side of plate, legs crossed on other, and wing at each end of plate. ❋ Marion Harris Neil (N/A)
The marten, on the contrary, who, with his long and slender body, his fine head, his soft skin, and his light brown neck-piece, looked like a little marvel of beauty, but in reality was nothing but a crude forest dweller – hardly answered him. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Simply dressed; white trousers of the tropics, with a strip of narrow black down the leg-fronts; a girdle of gold; ruffled white shirt, with sleeves that flared a trifle, and a neck-piece of black. ❋ Ray Cummings (1922)
The girl's fur neck-piece slipped down from her shoulders. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The mother had passed her the hat-box, and the girl had no hand free for the neck-piece. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Two of the pelts go to the neck-piece, while the third -- the most beautiful skin that ever came out of the north in the opinion of these experienced furriers -- makes the muff. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
As she spoke, she rose from the table and began to prepare herself for the street, putting on the black hat with the ostrich tip and the bunch of violets on one side, which didn't seem just right since she had come to New York, and carefully wrapping the ends of her fur neck-piece around her throat. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
Turning away from the window, she slipped the neck-piece over her shoulders, and as she did so, she tried to stifle the wonder whether he would have bought them -- whether even he would have remembered the date -- if Harry had not been with him. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
The young girl laughed as she flung down on the sofa her muff and fur neck-piece. ❋ Arthur Hornblow (1903)
We stripped it off (no need to spoil good harness by wetting it), and in the neck-piece De Aquila found the same folden piece of parchment which we had put back under the hearthstone. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"You've got a nice little neck-piece there for somebody," said Jack, as he looked at the soft fur of the mink. ❋ Edward Stratemeyer (1896)
We missed a chance [to stunt], but I know my neck piece [goes hard], easy to find….lights up and shines, and gives life like [bolts] on frankienstien . ❋ Dadiedoe (2022)
