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Medici collar

Medici collar noun: a fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.

Noun

Medici collar (plural Medici collars)

  1. A fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.
    • Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415

Forms of Medici collar

pluralMedici collars
alternative formde Medici collar

Origin of Medici collar

A style popularized by fashionable members of the Medici family in the seventeenth century.

Questions about Medici collar

What does Medici collar mean?
Medici collar means a fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.
What part of speech is Medici collar?
Medici collar is a noun.
What is the plural of Medici collar?
The plural of Medici collar is Medici collars.

Words near Medici collar in the dictionary

  1. medicatory
  2. Medicean
  3. medicerebellar
  4. medicerebral
  5. Medici
  6. Medici collar
  7. Medici collars
  8. medician
  9. medicians
  10. medicide
  11. medicides

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