Cravat

Quick meaning: Cravat is a noun meaning A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.

Meaning

A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.

More Meanings

1. (surgery) A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.
2. (transitive, rare) To adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck.
3. (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.

Example Sentences

I'm not like, a fashion person, so maybe I just don't get it, but I don't even understand how you're going to match. What, are you going to get like... a cravat that's the same color as her dress? / I would rock a dope cravat.

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.

Word Forms

• cravats
• cravatting
• cravatted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neckpiece, scarf, ascot, tie, regatte, stock.

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