shoulder knot

English

Noun

shoulder knot (plural shoulder knots)

  1. An ornamental knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulders of fashionable men's jackets, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      ‘May I?’ she whispered, smiling round into his face. His shoulder-knots just perceptibly rose.
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