Sentence examples for dickie from inspiring English sources

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dickie

noun

A false shirt-front sometimes worn with a tuxedo.

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Outside it, like on any other Saturday, some Nation Of Islam adherents – sombrely scowling black men in formal suits and dickie bows – were using hip hop and loudhailers to broadcast their message of racial segregation.

While Steadman gives us paintings of the dodo, the great auk and other familiar lost species in burning, unforgettable colours, we also find the nasty tern, the wizened twit, the dickie bird, the jail bird, and the lesser Peruvian blue-beaked blotswerve.

Watt and Dickie launched BrewDog in 2007 with secondhand equipment and now employ more than 360 people.

Another pavilion enhanced by light that would have Dickie Bird twitching and ticking is Lord's grand old pile.

Mr Dickie says there are no plans to change the way newspapers are distributed, mainly because there are far fewer titles.The publishers hate the idea, because it lessens their power to dictate titles and volumes.

It was between the "Dickie Neuhaus" who boisterously took charge of everything, and the man who knew he was not in charge at all.

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Forget the cliché of 1960s ska musicians as dickie-bowed crooners, rockabilly aspirants for the charity gala.

Among Mallett-Joris's later novels are Le Jeu de souterrain (1973; The Underground Game), Allegra (1976), Dickie-Roi (1979), Un Chagrin d'amour et d'ailleurs (1981; "A Sorrow of Love and More Besides"), Divine (1991), and Portrait d'un enfant non identifié (2004; "Portrait of an Unidentified Child").

In one passage of play that would have appealed to Keystone Kops enthusiasts everywhere, Mitrea penalised Cowan-Dickie for failing to release the ball in contact at the precise point when no Ospreys hand was upon his person, and missed a pass from Brendon Leonard to Justin Tipuric that was so far forward, it might have been thrown by Dan Marino.

Replacements: L Cowan-Dickie (Exeter), A Corbisiero (Northampton), D Wilson (Bath), D Attwood (Bath), J Haskell (Wasps), D Care (Harlequins), D Cipriani (Sale), Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester).

Cipriani's selection had been well flagged, as had the call-up for the eye-catching young Exeter hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie, who has a very good chance of making the final cut for the New Zealand-bound party.

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