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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cravat.
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2 (1689): "He looked, indeed, and sighed, and set his cravat-string, and sighed again, and combed his periwig: sighed a third time, and then took snuff, I guess to show the whiteness of his hand."
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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