Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a dinner jacket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shawl, or large and loose sash, worn as a belt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A sash for the waist; a girdle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A broad
sash , especially one that ispleated lengthwise and worn as an article offormal dress , as with atuxedo ordinner jacket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fellows are discarding waistcoats and wearing what they call a cummerbund -- silk sash round the waist.
The Paying Guest George Gissing 1880
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The plan - which Afghan officials have dubbed a "cummerbund" - could falter quickly if
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Red-tailed hawks have a white chest and a "cummerbund" of dark feathers.
Greeley Tribune - Top Stories Sue Kamal 2010
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Also, dinner jackets do not have notched lapels and they are worn with cummerbund or waistcoat.
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At a private screening of his latest oeuvre – a 40-minute music video entitled Runaway – West took to the stage in black shades and a brown leather cummerbund to tell the select audience that "I am the tree and the people are the branches" before going on to compare his new album to "the abstracted works of later Matisse or Picasso".
Kanye West: Mister Perfection is stylishly reinventing the rules of rap Elizabeth Day 2010
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Around Washington, tuxedos rent for about a hundred dollars a night; the price includes a bow tie, cuff links, a cummerbund, and sometimes shoes.
‘Men in Black’ (the Classic Cut) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Around Washington, tuxedos rent for about a hundred dollars a night; the price includes a bow tie, cuff links, a cummerbund, and sometimes shoes.
‘Men in Black’ (the Classic Cut) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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He also appears not to be wearing a cummerbund, and definitely no pocket square.
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He whips off his white suit with silver-sequinned lapels to reveal a tank top and then straps on a gold-appliqued cummerbund onto his hefty waist.
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The next morning, I woke up in an alley off Rosedale, my shoes, wallet and cummerbund gone, and I had to call the old man collect to come fetch me.
Aforementioned Craig Lancaster 2011
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