From names to wordsEveryday life
cravat
Croatian mercenaries in the Thirty Years' War wore knotted linen scarves; Paris copied the fashion and named it after them, à la cravate, 'Croat style'. French cravate then became the word for necktie across Europe and beyond — Italian cravatta, Spanish corbata, Portuguese gravata, German Krawatte, Turkish kravat, Greek gravata, even Tagalog korbata.
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