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

Davis, though, would certainly take one of those silk cashmere scarves Ms. Nichanian substituted for a cravat and knot it outside his shirt.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

Two days later, Bono walked forth on errands with the cravat unspotted.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson