sickie

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Streep - who was up for the best actress prize for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins - got additional love after photos were taken of her reaching over to straighten Ryan Gosling's dickie bow.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2017

She always told me I had to do sequin T-shirts like Jackie O. wore, and she had a dickie from the ’60s that was inspiration for our dickie sweater that was in the first collection.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

And that's before most of turn up in dickie bows, looking like they've just left an awards ceremony in 1985.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2010

Loads more use than the queen, who hasn't said a dickie bird since the war began.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

When Miss Evie's dickie died, you went all the way to Willstead by yourself and bought a new canary, so that she might never know her dickie died.

From The Third Miss Symons by Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald)