cravat
Example Sentences
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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Dean, 25, wore a stiff shirt, cravat, argyle jumper and pinstripe team blazer.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024
Elliot smolders, barely contained by a cravat, whether blocking the path when Anne is on a walk with her family, or entering a room.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2022
One crisp white shirt was worn unbuttoned to reveal a black cravat, then tucked into natty pinstriped pants with a black-and-white-striped silk bathrobe tied atop it all, a pair of matching spats below.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022
Slughorn hurried over the threshold, several bottles in his arms, and wearing a somber black cravat.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
