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bowtie

noun
/boʊˈtaɪ/US/bəʊˈtaɪ/UK

Etymology

From bow + tie.

  1. derived from *dewk-✻
  2. inherited from *taugō✻
  3. inherited from *taugu✻
  4. inherited from tēag
  5. inherited from teye — “cord, chain”
  6. compounded as bowtie — “bow + tie”

Definitions

  1. A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.

  2. A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).

  3. Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.

    • The corkscrew pasta holds the cheese sauce better, but all I had in the cupboard was bowtie pasta.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA