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Cravat vs Regatte - What's the difference?

cravat | regatte |

As nouns the difference between cravat and regatte

is that cravat is a wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men, having long ends hanging in front; like an ascot tie while regatte is or regatte can be a cravat tied in such a way that two ends of material dangle from the knot.

cravat

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia cravat)
  • A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men, having long ends hanging in front; like an ascot tie.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

    • regatte

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the (etyl) regatte, the plural form of regatta.

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 2005 : Bronwen Wilson, The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity , page 168] ([http://www.utppublishing.com/?pid=8186&step=4 University of Toronto Press)
    • Three days of festivities included regatte and war games.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • A cravat tied in such a way that two ends of material dangle from the knot.
  • * 1949 : CIBA Review , volume 6, issues 61–71, page 3,022 (CIBA Limited)
    • The earliest cravats were simple silk ribbons tied in a bow in front. There was a second kind, the so-called regatte , representing an ordinary knot from which two long ends of ribbon hung down. The most ingenious form was the plastron, a more or less studied and compact interlacement of silk ribbon which filled the whole opening of the coat.