Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Steenkirk \Steen"kirk`\, Steinkirk \Stein"kirk`\, n. [So called
   from the battle of Steinkirk, in 1692, on which occasion the
   French nobles had no time to arrange their lace neckcloths.]
   A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.