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

Grant’s commitment to his dastardly rogue barely goes beyond his cravat — he’d rather guffaw than feign gravitas.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Now Styles can finally crack open his cravat closet and get back to what he does best.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021

They ate pulled pork and cornbread in Davis Square, a paper napkin tucked like a cravat into the collar of Dev’s shirt.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri