Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a dinner jacket.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shawl, or large and loose sash, worn as a belt. Such a waist-band is a common part of East Indian costume, and, besides serving as a girdle, is useful as a protection to the abdomen.
Wiktionary
- n. A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sash for the waist; a girdle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
Etymologies
- Hindi kamarband, from Persian : kamar, waist + band, band; see bund1.
Examples
“Fellows are discarding waistcoats and wearing what they call a cummerbund -- silk sash round the waist.”
“The plan - which Afghan officials have dubbed a "cummerbund" - could falter quickly if”
“Red-tailed hawks have a white chest and a "cummerbund" of dark feathers.”
“Around Washington, tuxedos rent for about a hundred dollars a night; the price includes a bow tie, cuff links, a cummerbund, and sometimes shoes.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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".”
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“Also, dinner jackets do not have notched lapels and they are worn with cummerbund or waistcoat.”
“He also appears not to be wearing a cummerbund, and definitely no pocket square.”
“I find the binder clip cufflinks go quite nicely with my electrical tape bowtie and tinfoil cummerbund.”
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