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Medici collar
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English
Alternative forms
en de Medici collar
Etymology
A style popularized by fashionable members of the Medici family in the seventeenth century.
Noun
Medici collar
A fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.
en 2006 Thomas Pynchon Against the Day 415 Vintage 2007 Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.
Translations
fan-shaped collar
Finnish: fi Medici-kaulus
French: fr collet monté m
Russian: ru воротни́к Ме́дичи m
en eponyms
en Clothing