Definitions

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  • adjective Wearing a cravat.

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  • adjective Wearing a cravat.

Etymologies

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cravat +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • He was thin, fastidiously cravatted, booted and spurred like one-and-twenty; he crossed his arms and clinked his spurs as if he possessed all the wanton energy of youth.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • In the allotted time he emerged — coated, cravatted, and spiffily groomed except for his flamboyant moustache which always looked wayward.

    The Cat Who Went Underground Braun, Lilian Jackson 1989

  • In a single night, and without any transition, everything is transformed and changes color; the erst while-cravatted, freshly curled, carefully dressed gentleman makes his appearance in a dressing-gown.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Mr. Toots was one blaze of jewellery and buttons, and all the other young gentlemen were tightly cravatted, curled, and pumped, and all came in with their hats in their hands at separate times and were announced and introduced.

    Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

  • A 'Christian Service Wing' of the Free Money League may be formed, and his conscience may be roused by a white-cravatted orator, intoxicated by his own eloquence into something like sincerity, who borrows that phrase about 'Humanity crucified on a cross of gold' which

    Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895

  • A year made him collared and cravatted, short-cropped of hair, mighty in high-school frays, and with a new ambition stirring him, of a quality to compare with that of one Lucifer of unbounded reputation and doubtful biography.

    A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo 1879

  • These white-cravatted men, these gaily-dressed women, the file of guests saluting her at the same spot in the salon, with the same expression of assumed respect and trite politeness, appeared to her but a succession of phantoms.

    His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

  • Two white-cravatted servants occupied a bench while awaiting the minister's return.

    His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

  • Dr. Jedd left his visitors to follow the respectable white-cravatted butler, and darted back to his consulting-room.

    Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

  • Many and many a party of young ladies and gentlemen had their state gondolas handsomely decorated, and ate supper on board, bringing their swallow-tailed, white-cravatted varlets to wait upon them, and having their tables tricked out as if for a bridal supper.

    The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

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