Cravats
[krə'væts]
Examples
- Many people were moving to and fro, most of them muffled in their coats and cravats. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped cravats about our throats. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And we, my poor Watson, want overcoats and cravats and goloshes, and every aid that man ever invented to fight the weather. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- How did the Fashion of Wearing Cravats Commence? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was a little light-haired gentleman, with undeniable boots, and the stiffest of white cravats and shirt-collars. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Cravats get their name from the French cravate, meaning a croat, because this piece of dress was adopted in the eleventh century from the Croats who entered the French service. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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