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cravats

cravats is the plural of cravat.

cravats is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Phrases with cravats

Questions about cravats

What is cravats the plural of?
Cravats is the plural of cravat.

Words near cravats in the dictionary

  1. cravated
  2. cravates
  3. Cravath
  4. Cravaths
  5. cravating
  6. cravats
  7. cravatted
  8. cravatting
  9. crave
  10. craveable
  11. craved

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