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  1. noun A thin strip of flexible material used to encircle and bind one object or to hold a number of objects together: a metal band around the bale of cotton.
  2. noun A strip or stripe that contrasts with something else in color, texture, or material.
  3. noun A narrow strip of fabric used to trim, finish, or reinforce articles of clothing.
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  1. Middle English bende (from Old English bend and from Old French bande, bende, of Germanic origin) and Middle English bond, band (from Old Norse, band); see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Earlier bande, from Old French, banner, troop identified by its standard, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English band, bande, also bond, bonde (later modern English bond, the same word, now partly discriminated in use), from Anglo-Saxon *band = Old Saxon band = OFries. band = Dutch band = Old High German Middle High German bant, German band = Icelandic Swedish band = Danish baand, a band, a tie, a neuter noun (in D. and G. also masculine), developing in later use a great variety of particular senses, and merged in Middle English with the synonymous bend, bende, bænde, from Anglo-Saxon bend, rarely bænd, in modern English properly bend, and with the slightly different bande, English band, a strip, hoop, etc., derived through the French from the same ult. source, namely, Teutonic (Anglo-Saxon, etc.) bindan (preterit band), English bind: see bind, bend, bend, bend, and cf. bond, band, band.
  2. from Middle English bande, from Old French bande, earlier bende, modern F. bande = Provencal benda = Spanish banda, venda = Portuguese banda = Italian banda and benda, dial. binda, a band, strip, side, etc., in various particular senses, from Old High German binda, binta, Middle High German G. binde, feminine, a band, fillet, tie, cravat (cf. Dutch bind, neuter, a crossbeam, joint, = Danish bind, neuter, a baud, tie, etc.), from Old High German bintan, Middle High German G. binden, etc., = Anglo-Saxon bindan, English bind. The word is thus ult. cognate with band and with bend, with which it has been mixed, but it differs in its orig. formation: see band, bend, and the doublet bend.
  3. Early modern English also bend, from late Middle English bande, also bende, from Old French and F. bande = Provencal Spanish Italian banda (Middle Latin bandum, bandus; so G. bande, Dutch bande, now bende, Danish bande, Swedish band, after Roman), a band or company, from Old High German bant, Old Saxon OFries., etc., band, a band or tie, the sense of ‘company’ being developed first in Roman: see band, band, and cf. the doublet bend.
  4. from band, n.
  5. Local English, perhaps a particular use of band, a strip, or possibly of early modern English bande, from Middle English bande, variant of bonde, a bound, limit: see bound.
  6. Same as ban, after Middle Latin and Italian bandire, a form of Middle Latin bannire, banish, ban: see ban, banish. Otherwise taken, in the passage quoted, as band, for bandy.
  7. Native name.
 

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