What's the difference between bandanna and cravat?

Bandanna


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bandana

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He absolutely can win,” says Sean Lavelle, who has brought a battered American flag bandanna and two T-shirts to the party.
  • (2) A man nearby fell, shot in the back, and Hansen tried to stanch the bleeding with a bandanna while “the continuous bang of the gun” echoed through people’s screams.
  • (3) A short time later, Monis pulled out a shotgun and put on a bandanna with Islamic writing on it.
  • (4) She had just bought a Bernie Sanders bandanna – it was emblazoned with popular quotes from the Vermont senator – and was wrapping it round her head.
  • (5) Many donned red ribbons, bandannas or clothing to show solidarity with the family.
  • (6) You can’t even show your face,” another yelled at a protester with a bandanna over her face.
  • (7) Volunteers – locals and outsiders – had for a time kept a fragile peace by linking arms and forcing rowdy youths, many covering their faces with masks and bandannas, back from lines of police with riot gear and armoured vehicles.

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."

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