Medici collar

noun

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

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Meanings

nounMedici collar (plural Medici collars)

plural Medici collars · alternative de Medici collar

  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

Origin

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

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Translations

Finnish Medici-kaulus
  • Medici-kaulusfan-shaped collar
French collet monté
  • collet montéfan-shaped collar
Russian воротни́к Ме́дичи
  • воротни́к Ме́дичи (vorotník Médiči)fan-shaped collar
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APA

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Chicago

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