Medici collar en · NOUN
Etymology
A style popularized by fashionable members of the Medici family in the seventeenth century.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medici collars | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| de Medici collar | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
fr collet monté (fan-shaped collar) · fi Medici-kaulus (fan-shaped collar) · ru воротни́к Ме́дичи (fan-shaped collar)