Medici collar
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Etymology edit
A style popularized by fashionable members of the Medici family in the seventeenth century.
Noun edit
Medici collar (plural Medici collars)
- A fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:
- Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.
Translations edit
fan-shaped collar
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