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Neckwear in a slipknot
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cravat
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The cravat (, ) is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie , originating from 17th-century military unit known as the Croats . From the end of the 16th century, the term band applied to any long-strip neckcloth that was not ...
Usage examples of cravat.
Miss Cherrystone to meet me in the library in half an hour, then come back to help me with my cravat.
He bore her suffocating embrace for ten seconds and then demanded in a voice one used with a spoiled child that she release him at once or be responsible for the ruin of a perfectly good Brussels lace cravat and his favorite silk Chinoiserie waistcoat.
A gawky, familiar figure edged its way toward them through the gaudy press of market women and keelboat thugs, stevedores and flaneurs, and January recognized Esteban, followed closely by a tubby, pleasant-faced little gentleman wearing an overly elaborate lilac-striped cravat.
As they did so, with flourishes, a fussy young woman wearing black velvet with a lace cravat heaving frothily on her breast appeared through the entrance.
He wore a puffed and powdered wig, and a garish ensemble of matching justicoat, waistcoat and breeches, his ruffled cravat sprouting from beneath his overlapping chins like the desperate hand of a drowning victim, flailing for aid.
He could feel the hands moving slowly against him, removing his justicoat and cravat, setting to work on the buttons of his shirt.
He had been roused from his bed to meet with Aedhir, and wore a hastily knotted cravat drooped over a rumbled shirt with a red justicoat drawn overtop.
Shallow magnetometrics are essential for safe groundside excursion in most parts of Cravat.
Lord Melton sat at a green-felt-covered table, his cravat perfectly tied, his face flushed from the contents of a half-empty glass at his elbow, a wild, desperate gleam to his eye.
Dressed in a severe black coat and breeches with the finest, snowiest of cravats, he was impossibly handsome.
His shirt and cravat were of the snowiest white, his pantaloons and waistcoat of the blackest black.
I seized my dress-coat which was beside me, threw it over my shoulders, twisted my white cravat round my neck, and, like a soldier bivouacking, I sought a comfortable position.
At divers other times he hath been in danger to be strangled with cravats and handkerchiefs that he hath worn about his neck, which have been drawn so close that with the sudden violence he hath near been choaked, and hardly escaped death.
About his neck was a white cravat, while on his cocked hat were four cockades, one each for England, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
The same evening there were dozens of young bloods walking the streets of London with their cravats loose.