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A strip of silk whose only job is to say you followed a rule you didn't write.
means A long strip of fabric knotted around the collar and left to dangle as a piece of formal or business dress.
from Traces back to 17th-century Croatian mercenaries serving in France, who wore knotted cloths around their necks — the French called them 'Croates,' which slid into 'cravate,' ancestor of 'cravat.' The word 'necktie' itself is a plainer English compound, simply 'tie' for the 'neck,' emerging as the accessory evolved from the elaborate cravat into the simpler knotted strip we'd recognize today.
- origin
- Croatian mercenaries inspired the word cravat
- function
- Serves no purpose except signaling you can tie one
- fun fact
- Windsor knot named for a duke who never tied it
- irony
- Points straight down toward the thing it distracts from