• (RP) IPA: /kɹəˈvat/
• (GA) IPA: /kɹəˈvæt/

cravat (plural cravats)

1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hang#Verb|hanging in front.
   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 3 ↗:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

2. (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.
3. (surgery) A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage fold#Verb|folded into a strip#Noun|strip.

• French: foulard
• Spanish: mascada

cravat (cravats, present participle cravatting; past and past participle cravatted)

1. (transitive, rare) To adorn with a cravat; to tie#Verb|tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck.