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dickey-flap
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a protective flap at the neck-opening of a dickey.
Quotations
1942
A pathetic bit of bright red yarn, procurable only at a post, tied back a strand of hair just above her forehead, and all around the dickey-flap of her feather parka was an edging of empty ·22 shells, highly polished and ornamented.
1949
The artiggi, or "dickey" flap, is gaily ornamented with braid, beads, coins, sometimes spoons.