string tie
1
6.5
- noun
- /strɪŋ taɪ/
:
corbata de lazo
- My father wore a seersucker suit and a string tie.
- a black string tie
- a suit with a string tie
- shirts with string ties
Examples
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Anne probably envisioned his father wearing a white suit, string tie, and planter's hat.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mister Watson was dressed in a linen suit and black string tie, boots glistening and mustache waxed, and kept his hat off.
Fiction book (1990) -
He wears a black hat, a black jacket, and a black string tie.
Fiction book (1994) -
Harry cleared his throat and straightened his black string tie.
Fiction book (1996) -
All five of the musicians in the new band were clad in black leather pants and Western shirts with string ties.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ensconced in one wicker chair was a gray-haired man in a white linen suit and black string tie.
Fiction book (2002) -
He dressed himself in slacks and shoes, even socks that matched, and a cowboy string tie over his plaid shirt.
Fiction book (1992) -
He wore work boots laced to the top, sooty overalls, a carefully brushed suit jacket, and a velvet string tie.
Fiction book (1992) -
Each morning he shaved carefully with a well-stropped razor, buttoned a clean, crackly starched white shirt, and tied a black string tie in a bow knot.
Fiction book (2001) -
The cowboy adjusted his string tie before entering the rodeo arena.
Synonyms
107
1.0
A piece of string or ribbon used to fasten things together
36
2.8
A small necktie tied in a bow, worn for formal events
21
1.0
A long narrow piece of cloth you wear under a shirt collar and tie at the front
7
2.8
A narrow cloth tie that you tie in a bow and wear with formal clothes
1
4.1
A narrow necktie popular in the late 1950s and 1960s
How Formal
36
2.8
9
7.7
21
1.0
- Archaic
1
4.1
1
6.5
- US
1
7.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'string' (thin cord) and 'tie' (neckcloth) will readily infer a tie made of string or ribbon. This noun+noun modification follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so the specific sense is transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun string tie comes from the simple image of a thin string used as a tie at the neck, often tied in a small 'bow'. That's why string tie means 'a very narrow necktie', like the ones cowboys used to wear.