Word: cravateer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...linen cloth. Opposite the entrance hung a large picture of what I at first thought a ballet-troupe in distress, but I afterwards found that it was only a group of Dr. Dio Lewis's pupils. A big man, in a choker coming up to his ears, and no cravat, told me, in a hollow voice, to put my valuables in a little drawer and to hang the key around my neck. I had always understood that the Turks were low robbers at home, but I had no idea they retained that character in climes so distant from their...