charvet

[shahr-vey, shahr-vey]

noun

1. a soft, lusterless silk or rayon tie fabric, often made with a faint stripe effect.

Word History and Origins

Origin of charvet¹

Named after the French firm

Example Sentences

New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana, who is of Māori British ancestry, transformed a famous early 19th century French scenic wallpaper designed by Jean-Gabriel Charvet into an equally extravagant, 70-foot-wide projection of video animation.

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Rare is the book that can luxuriate in a discussion of Coppola’s taste for Charvet button-down shirts and how that related to her work on “Marie Antoinette.”

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The research team comprised Prof. Cusack, who measures development of the infant brain and mind using neuroimaging; Prof. Christine Charvet, Auburn University, USA, who compares brain development across species; and Dr. Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, a senior AI researcher at DeepMind.

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"Our study compared brain development across animal species. It drew from a long-standing project, Translating Time, that equates corresponding ages across species to establish that human brains are more mature than many other species at birth," says Prof. Charvet.

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More likely, he is fresh-faced, wears a lounge suit with a Charvet tie and is by his employers’ side whether they are at home or not.

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