old school tie

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   necktie indicating the school the wearer attended

   Broadernecktie

Questions about old school tie

What does old school tie mean?

old school tie means "necktie indicating the school the wearer attended".

Is old school tie a common word?

old school tie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.