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cravate

cravate is the obsolete form of cravat.

Meaning of cravat

Noun

cravat (plural cravats)

  1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
    • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 3
  2. (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.
  3. A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.

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Forms of cravate

pluralcravates

Questions about cravate

What is cravate the obsolete form of?
Cravate is the obsolete form of cravat.

Words near cravate in the dictionary

  1. craunching
  2. craunchingly
  3. Crauns
  4. cravache
  5. cravat
  6. cravate
  7. cravated
  8. cravates
  9. Cravath
  10. Cravaths
  11. cravating

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