(n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
(n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(2) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
(3) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
(4) Eighteen months ago they sent out a solitary photo of a group of kids in a car park , shrouded in smoke, their faces covered by white bandanas.
(5) They are pictured holding guns and dressed in desert camouflage and brown bandanas.
(6) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(7) He told her that someone was there for her and as she opened the front door she was confronted by a figure in a grey hoodie, a bandana over his face and his hood up.
(8) But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.
(9) We wore bandanas, and I bought a couple of “weskits”, but resisted the urge to add a pair of fringed leather chaps.
(10) He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.
(11) Several had shaved heads, most had beards, some had bandanas, most seemed middle-aged, a handful were young.
(12) A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.
(13) There's burnt cars, bins on fire, and hundreds of guys with bandanas round their faces.
(14) Hell yeah, I’m angry!” Hamilton says, pushing down her bandana to speak to me.
(15) What kind of response is that?” said Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing a red bandana.
(16) The soundbites keep coming from rock gods in bandanas praising Lemmy for his "realness" and his "badness", but none of these multi-millionaires are still drinking down at The Rainbow.
(17) Out of respect to Sikhs as he visited their holiest site, he wore a dark blue bandana on his head.
(18) The uniform: a white shirt and a red bandana neck tie.
(19) They buzz you in, check your ID, have videos monitoring and even have a dress code – one man was asked to take off his hooded top and bandana.
(20) 'He had a scarf like a bandana and a scarf on his mouth and he was carrying a machine gun,' she said.
Cravat
Definition:
(n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(2) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(3) His own painting which he had to show me was Self Portrait, Reflection, now quite a well-known work of him clutching at a loosely tied scarf or cravat.
(4) A silk scarf tied as a cravat was a recurring motif, appearing at shows as diverse as Margaret Howell and JW Anderson.
(5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
(6) Harry Crane's cravat, hairpiece and comedy specs aren't a million miles away from what Austin Powers wears in Goldmember – perfect for a character who always tries that little bit too hard.
(7) We met in Canada, and I wore a three-piece suit, a cravat, my hair tied back, and earrings.
(8) "It's all about giving someone a slice of a dreeeam," he emotes, cravat throbbing with pride, as he disappears into the distance, oblivious to the fact that nobody is listening, let alone remotely interested in his opinion of their skirting boards.
(9) The skit features the twosome as Bryce Shivers (Ronseal tan, lilac cravat) and Lisa Eversman (think Linda Barker at her most deranged), a pair of designers who think anything from teapots and tote bags to toast can be spruced up by daubing a silhouette of a bird on it.
(10) Because the practice of putting characters on products is so prevalent, Nittono, a placid, smiling man who wears a cravat, has been working with the government on developing products that are intrinsically cute.
(11) The other Gauguin, Young Man with a Flower, is a painting of a Tahitian youth wearing a white shirt, loose cravat and a white blossom tucked behind his ear.
(12) His military background is written all over him, with a red cravat, a black beret and a tough look.
(13) The glimpse of Baudelaire continues: "He was without a cravat, his shirt open at the neck and his head shaved, just as if he were going to be guillotined."
(14) Another memorable client was the owner of a Dutch jewellers, flat-hunting with his blazer- and cravat-wearing 19-year-old son.
(15) David Price, wrapped up in flat cap, cravat and Barbour against the chill wind, can't quite decide.
(16) It's not easy forging a future as the heir to one of Britain's grandest stately homes when your present is up to its cravat in the past.
(17) Dressed up for the occasion in fedoras, fezzes and endless varieties of neckwear, from long woollen scarves to cravats, the heaving crowds packed the streets of Cardiff to watch the newest incarnation of Doctor Who, played by Peter Capaldi , walk down the red carpet and into the world premiere of the show's eighth series.
(18) Bullard wears loosely knotted cravats and has the faintest shadow of a beard, like the ghost of a beard that threw itself off a dado rail when it realised it would never be beautiful enough to sit next to the Air Wick plug-in in Tori Spelling's downstairs bog.
(19) "It couldn't be further from the stuffy or pretentious theatre that blokes wearing cravats and cords enjoy."