cravat

plural cravats

1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.

   I'm not like, a fashion person, so maybe I just don't get it, but I don't even understand how you're going to match. What, are you going to get like... a cravat that's the same color as her dress? / I would rock a dope cravat.

   2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Aug 2025, page 9

   1 more example

   It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 3

2. historicalA decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.
3. medicineA bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.

present singular third person cravats · participle present cravatting · participle past cravatted · past cravatted

1. raretransitiveTo adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck.