watch chain

plural watch chains

1. alternativeAlternative form of watchchain.

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   […] in the outermost suburbs, I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartoloměj Smečka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch chain draped over it, […]

   2001, Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, New York, N.Y.: Random House, translation of original by Winfried Georg Sebald, →ISBN, page 149