sword knot

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   an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword

   Broadertassel

Questions about sword knot

What does sword knot mean?

sword knot means "an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword".

Is sword knot a common word?

sword knot 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.