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  • Jean-Claude starts things off by saying, “Je voudrais homard et cravates pour dîner.”

    Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003

  • "Cravat" comes from the French cravates, which referred to the Croatian soldiers.

    Bow Ties 1995

  • Indolently mincing about London in the last decade of HRH Queen Victoria's thronehood; flowing silk-twilled cravates trailing behind them like peculiar tails flapping in a homosexual breeze.

    unknown title 2011

  • Indolently mincing about London in the last decade of HRH Queen Victoria's thronehood; flowing silk-twilled cravates trailing behind them like peculiar tails flapping in a homosexual breeze.

    unknown title 2011

  • a Deputy discerns, in this same Banner, that the cravates or streamers of it have Royal fleurs-de-lys!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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