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cravat

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WOTD – 20 June 2017
 
An 1800 portrait of French astronomer Pierre-François Bernier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USA. Bernier is depicted wearing a cravat.

Etymology

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From French cravate, an appellative use of Cravate (“Croat”), from Dutch Krawaat, from German Krawatte, from Serbo-Croatian Hr̀vāt/Хр̀ва̄т (“Croat”). The cravat is regarded as originating from a linen scarf worn by Croatian mercenaries which was adopted into French fashion in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cravat (plural cravats)

  1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
    • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 3:
      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.
  2. (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.
  3. (surgery) A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.

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Verb

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cravat (third-person singular simple present cravats, present participle cravatting, simple past and past participle cravatted)

  1. (transitive, rare) To adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck.

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  1. ^ “cravat, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2013.

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