Associations to the word «Medici»

Wiktionary

MEDICI COLLAR, noun. A fan-shaped (especially lace) collar, standing upright behind the head and sloping down to meet a square neckline in front.

Dictionary definition

MEDICI, noun. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope