Medici collar

English

Alternative forms

de Medici collar

Etymology

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

Noun

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

fan-shaped collar

Finnish: Medici-kaulus
French: collet monté (fr) m
Russian: воротни́к Ме́дичи m (vorotník Médiči)

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