cravat: [17] The fashion for wearing scarves round the neck started in France in the 1650s. It was inspired by Croatian mercenaries employed there at that time, who regularly sported linen neckbands of that type. The Croats were called in French Cravates (the name comes via German Krabate from the original Serbo-Croat term Hrvat), and so their neckerchiefs came to be known as cravates too. English was quick to adopt the term.
cravat (n.)
1650s, from French cravate (17c.), from Cravate "Croatian," from German Krabate, from Serbo-Croatian Hrvat "a Croat" (see Croat). Cravats came into fashion 1650s in imitation of linen scarves worn by Croatian mercenaries in the French army in the Thirty Years War.
双语例句
1. They wore ordinary ties instead of the more formal high collar and cravat.
他们打着普通的领带，而不是更为正式的高领领结。
来自柯林斯例句
2. You're never fully dressed without a cravat.
不打领结，就不算正装。
来自辞典例句
3. Mr. Kenge adjusting his cravat, then looked at us.
肯吉先生整了整领带, 然后又望着我们.
来自辞典例句
4. Gradually his capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat.
他的广阔的下巴逐渐侵占了白领带的边界.
来自辞典例句
5. Change that cravat for this of mine, that coat for this of mine.
