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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021

A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a pencil drawing of the author, sporting a velvet jacket, a billowy white shirt and cravat.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri