A bow tie is the small knot of cloth shaped like a butterfly, worn at the collar. Wear a bow tie.
A real one is tied and is never quite symmetrical, which is how you tell it from a clip. The bow tie came from Croatian soldiers, and so did the ordinary necktie.
1phrasebow tieThe small knot of cloth shaped like a butterfly, worn at the collar.
“He learned to tie a bow tie the afternoon before the wedding.”
bow tie is clothing.
bowtie comes from bow + tie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Clothes & Fashion