单词 | cravat |
释义 | cravat From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Clothes & fashioncravatcra‧vat /krəˈvæt/ noun [countable]DCa wide piece of loosely folded material that men wear around their necks → tieExamples from the Corpuscravat• He wore a cravat and a dark, sober suit with wide lapels.• Often worn with pale, open-necked sports shirts and dodgy cravats.• Neither approached the tactical nous of cricket's most famous cravat wearer, Douglas Jardine.• As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.• The darker grey cravat made his eyes look bluer, his skin more tanned.• Well, actually, he did spill some kind of goo all over his cravat at the Election-Day lunch at Allegro restaurant.Origin cravat (1600-1700) French cravate, from Cravate “Croatian”; from the scarves worn by 17th-century Croatian soldiers |
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