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half-Windsor en · NOUN
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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:
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