cravache

Borrowed from French cravache. Doublet of kurbash.

cravache (plural cravaches)

1. A riding crop.
   • 1899, anonymous author, “From St. Malo to Monte-Carlo”, in St. Martin's-le-grand, volume 9:

     Our young pilot […] used his cravache with enviable skill.

   • 1895, Julien Gordon, Poppaea:

     The other spurred them on with a cravache he whirled over their long ears.

   • 1965, James Merrill, The (Diblos) Notebook:

     Your brother has only to set foot on Dora's land to be driven off with a cravache by Byron.

• courbache (directly from Ottoman, of somewhat independent meaning)

Borrowed from German Karbatsche, from Polish karbacz, karabacz, korbacz, from Ottoman Turkish قرباچ (kırbaç).

• IPA^(key): /kʁa.vaʃ/

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cravache f (plural cravaches)

1. quirt, riding crop
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Ainsi, elle voulut avoir, pour la donner à Rodolphe, une fort belle cravache qui se trouvait à Rouen dans un magasin de parapluies.

     Thus she wanted to have a very handsome riding-whip that was at an umbrella-maker's at Rouen to give to Rodolphe.

• → Italian: cravache
• → Romanian: cravașă

cravache

1. inflection of cravacher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cravache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from French cravache. Doublet of cravascia (semi-learned borrowing from the same term), and curbascio.

• IPA^(key): /kraˈvaʃ/^*
• Rhymes: -aʃ
• Hyphenation: cra‧vàche

cravache f (invariable)

1. riding crop

   Synonym: (rare) cravascia

• cravache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cravache in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication