English

Noun

shoulder knot ‎(plural shoulder knots)

1. An ornamental knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulders of fashionable men's jackets, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     ‘May I?’ she whispered, smiling round into his face. His shoulder-knots just perceptibly rose.