(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."
Fabric
Definition:
(n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
(n.) That which is fabricated
(n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
(n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
(n.) The act of constructing; construction.
(n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
(v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(4) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(5) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(6) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
(7) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(8) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(9) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
(10) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
(11) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
(12) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(13) In addition, there are basic differences in the PNI formation on aldehyde-treated pericardium and natural aortic valves as compared to the Dacron fabric.
(14) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
(15) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
(16) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(17) A technique for fabricating dies without using a die saw has been described.
(18) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(19) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
(20) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.