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More than one piece of material that is used as decoration on the head, around the neck or around the waist.

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Usage examples (38)
  • She was a lady who had flair, and for her that meant wearing many scarves.
  • Some of the coin scarves are so heavy they fall right off.
  • My calculator informs me that the cost to equip 1500 people with the scarves is £19,500.
  • Meanwhile, at Westminster Tube station, disconsolate penguins swathed in scarves waited in vain for a train to Stanmore.
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