Sentence:  He wore a brown tweed suit and a white <WSD>stock</WSD>. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.