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.
雙語例句
1. They wore ordinary ties instead of the more formal high collar and cravat.
他們打著普通的領帶，而不是更為正式的高領領結。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You're never fully dressed without a cravat.
不打領結，就不算正裝。
來自辭典例句
3. Mr. Kenge adjusting his cravat, then looked at us.
肯吉先生整了整領帶, 然后又望著我們.
來自辭典例句
4. Gradually his capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat.
他的廣闊的下巴逐漸侵占了白領帶的邊界.
來自辭典例句
5. Change that cravat for this of mine, that coat for this of mine.