CRAVAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cravat mean? 

• CRAVAT (noun)
  The noun CRAVAT has 1 sense:

1. neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front

  Familiarity information: CRAVAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAVAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cravat" is a kind of...):

neckwear (articles of clothing worn about the neck)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cravat"):

ascot (a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin)

neckcloth; stock (an ornamental white cravat)

 Context examples 

Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up—with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse’s leg.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the doorway of the Howe Street flats a man, muffled in a cravat and greatcoat, was leaning against the railing.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Particularly well; I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge; and my sister has often trusted me in the choice of a gown.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Many people were moving to and fro, most of them muffled in their coats and cravats.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His vest was of black velvet, open at the top to show an embroidered shirt-front, with a high, smooth, white cravat above it, which kept his neck for ever on the stretch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was a little light-haired gentleman, with undeniable boots, and the stiffest of white cravats and shirt-collars.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Do you know, Jane, I have your little pearl necklace at this moment fastened round my bronze scrag under my cravat?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At my suggestion a couple of the county police were summoned to be present, and I then endeavoured to raise the stone by pulling on the cravat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)