Crossword clues for cravat
cravat
- Artist holds bible in court in Ascot?
- Fancy tie
- Fancy necktie
- Apparel item
- Neck scarf
- Neck piece
- Decorative neckwear
- Dressy neckwear
- Ascot relative
- Man's neck scarf
- Item of neckwear
- Fop's accessory
- Decorative necktie
- Neckwear in a slipknot
- Strip of fabric worn round the neck
- Nob's accessory, perhaps
- Neck accessory
- Man's fancy neck scarf
- Male neckwear
- Louis XIV accessory
- Lace-trimmed neckwear
- Ascot's cousin
- Ascot cousin
- 17th-century neckwear
- Haberdasher's offering
- Relative of 14-Across
- Tie alternative
- It hangs by the neck
- Accessory popularized by Louis XIV
- Fancy neckwear
- Adam's apple coverer
- Dandy accessory
- Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front
- Haberdasher's item
- Four-in-hand
- Neckpiece
- Necktie
- Neckwear item
- Neckcloth
- Haberdashery item
- Virginia entering picked up bow tie at first and a possible alternative
- Cameron initially produced Avatar without a tie
- Smart accessory makes little difference to car tax
- New car tax? It's worn out
- Bend over barrel for a potential strangler!
- Ignoring outer clothing, scrap tax for menswear item
- Accessory for many an artist attracts tax
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ascot \ascot\ n. [from the fashionable clothjing worn at the Ascot races.] a cravat with wide square ends, tied so that the ends are laid flat; the ends are often secured with an ornamental pin; -- called cravat in Britain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French cravate (17c.), from Cravate "Croatian," from German Krabate, from Serbo-Croatian Hrvat "a Croat" (see Croat). Cravats came into fashion 1650s in imitation of linen scarves worn by Croatian mercenaries in the French army in the Thirty Years War.
Wiktionary
n. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men, having long ends hanging in front; like an ascot tie.
WordNet
n. neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front
Wikipedia
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 a ruff. The ruff, a starched, pleated white linen strip, originated earlier in the 16th century as a neckcloth (readily changeable, to minimize the soiling of a doublet), as a bib, or as a napkin. A band could be either a plain, attached shirt collar or a detachable "falling band" that draped over the doublet collar. It is possible that cravats were initially worn to hide shirts which were not immaculately clean. Alternatively, it was thought to serve as psychological protection of the neck during battle from attack by a spear.
Cravat (1935–1954) was an American record-setting Thoroughbred racehorse who won races on both dirt and turf that today are Grade 1 events. In the U.S. Triple Crown series, he finished second in the Preakness Stakes and third in the Belmont Stakes.
Cravat was sired by Sickle, the British Champion Two-Year-Old Colt whom Cravat helped become a two-time leading sire in North America. Sickle was a son of the important sire Phalaris, a two-time leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland. His dam was Frilette, a daughter of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Man o' War.
A cravat is neckband and the forerunner of the modern necktie.
Cravat may refer to:
- day cravat, a narrow neckband with wide pointed wings
- cravat bandage, a triangular bandage
- Cravat (horse), a racehorse
- Nick Cravat, an American actor and stunt performer
- Cravat Regiment, a guard of honour in Croatia
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.