Definition of "cravat"

cravat

/kɹəˈvat/

noun
plural cravats
1. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
  Quotations
  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.
  1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 3
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 folded into a strip.
verb
third-person singular simple present cravats, present participle cravatting, simple past and past participle cravatted
1. (transitive, rare) To adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the neck.