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half-Windsor

half-Windsor noun: a triangular knot used to tie a necktie.

Noun

half-Windsor (plural half-Windsors)

  1. A triangular knot used to tie a necktie.
    • The half windsor of his yellow silk foulard was loosened at the neck and his navy pinstripe suit jacket was slung over one shoulder.1986, Craig G. Harris, “Weekend Plans”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 134
    • Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of half-Windsor

pluralhalf-Windsors

Questions about half-Windsor

What does half-Windsor mean?
Half-Windsor means a triangular knot used to tie a necktie.
What part of speech is half-Windsor?
Half-Windsor is a noun.
What is the plural of half-Windsor?
The plural of half-Windsor is half-Windsors.

Words near half-Windsor in the dictionary

  1. half-wheeling
  2. half-wheels
  3. half-width
  4. half-widths
  5. half-wild
  6. half-Windsor
  7. half-Windsors
  8. half-wit
  9. half-witch
  10. half-witches
  11. half-wits

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