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Watch chain

noun

Short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest. Synonyms: fob, watch guard.

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... flutter it. It's a cross between an armory an' a jail. It frowns down upon th' sthreet. An' Grogan. He looks as solid as though th' columns iv th' building was quarried out iv him. See him with his goold watch chain clankin' again th' pearl buttons iv his vest. He niver give me much more thin a nod out iv th' north-east corner iv his left eyebrow, but he was always very kind an' polite to Mulligan, th' little tailor. Except that I thought ...

— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne

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... from his watch chain, and began to unlock and draw out the drawers. A cry of wonder and of admiration burst from Robert McIntyre, as his eyes rested upon case after case filled with the most magnificent stones. The deep still red of the rubies, the clear scintillating green of the emeralds, the hard glitter of the diamonds, ...

— The Doings Of Raffles Haw • Arthur Conan Doyle

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... grey flannel shirt and an old bit of black ribbon done up in a bow by way of a tie; his slouch hat, once black, was now green with age, and his boots were innocent of blacking. But my eyes were dazzled by a heavy gold watch chain across his waistcoat and I thought him the most glorious of ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

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... gull suspended just so—too pale as usual. The critics would say it was too pale, for he was an unknown man exhibiting obscurely, a favourite with his landladies' children, wearing a cross on his watch chain, and much gratified if his landladies liked his pictures—which ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

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... other two. They were watching McNally closely, and Williams was fumbling his watch chain. ...

— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

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