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Jean-Claude starts things off by saying, “Je voudrais homard et cravates pour dîner.”
Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003
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"Cravat" comes from the French cravates, which referred to the Croatian soldiers.
Bow Ties 1995
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Indolently mincing about London in the last decade of HRH Queen Victoria's thronehood; flowing silk-twilled cravates trailing behind them like peculiar tails flapping in a homosexual breeze.
unknown title 2011
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Indolently mincing about London in the last decade of HRH Queen Victoria's thronehood; flowing silk-twilled cravates trailing behind them like peculiar tails flapping in a homosexual breeze.
unknown title 2011
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a Deputy discerns, in this same Banner, that the cravates or streamers of it have Royal fleurs-de-lys!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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