ascot tie
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Etymology[edit]
Traditionally worn at the Ascot races in Ascot, England.
Noun[edit]
ascot tie (plural ascot ties)
- A type of cravat or necktie with a narrow neckband and wide wings laid one across the other.
- Synonym: ascot
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
Translations[edit]
type of necktie