Medici collar

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Medici collar

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

noun Medici collars · de Medici collar

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.

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noun fan-shaped collar

Français	collet monté
Русский	воротни́к Ме́дичи vorotník Médiči

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@misc{medici_collar_2026,
  title = {Medici collar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/medici%20collar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}