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shoulder-knot
1. A knot of ribbon or lace, sometimes enriched with jewels, worn on the shoulder by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th c.; also a knot, formerly of ribbons of the family colours, subsequently of lace, worn on the shoulder by some livery servants; a knot or bow of ribbon worn at the shoulder by a woman or child; also Mil. = aglet 2 c.
1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1075/4 Went away from his Master..in a cloth Sute..his Shoulder-knot and Hatband of Twelve-penny broad Ribon figured. 1700Farquhar Const. Couple i. i. 7 Clinch... Sir, (to Wildair) I admire the mode of your Shoulder-knot. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3998/4 A light-grey Cloth Livery lined with yellow, a yellow Shoulder-knot. 1781Cowper Table-T. 44 Better..Then grace the bony phantom..With the king's shoulder-knot and gay cockade. 1861Ladies' Gaz. Fashion July 6/1 Three-quarter length sleeves, with ribbon shoulder-knots. 1862Macm. Mag. May 17, I have seen..an officer with his shoulder-knots sewed on to a common plain frock-coat.
2. attrib.
1772Forster Hudson's Bay Birds in Phil. Trans. LXII. 393 Shoulder-knot Grous. 1819Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 300 Shoulder-knot Heathcock. (Bonasa Umbellus.) 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiv, The Park Lane shoulder-knot aristocracy.
Hence shoulder-knotted a.
1818G. Colman Two Parsons Poet. Vagaries (ed. 3) 144 A shoulder-knotted Puppy..let him in. 1831Carlyle Misc. Ess., Schiller 1840 III. 4 Such valets as are too genuine, as are shoulder-knotted..in soul as well as in body. |