Translation
tie, necktie
Word origin
From French cravate, which is the French word for a Croat. Croatian soldiers in seventeenth-century French service wore a knotted neckcloth, and the nationality became the name of the garment.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- cravate
- English cognates
- cravat
Examples
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He wore a white shirt and a black tie.
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That tie is too long.
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I do not like wearing a tie to the office.
Almost every European language borrowed the same joke, and Esperanto with them: the tie around your neck is named after Croatia. is to wear one; the knot itself is a nodo.
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