cummerbund

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Then the Colonel made a turban out of his red silk cummerbund, and insisted that Mr. Stuart should wear it.

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  1. noun A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a dinner jacket.

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  • Trueblood was wearing a paisley dinner jacket, black cummerbund, and a cerise bow-tie, butterfly fashion, be­neath a wing collar. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • The captain was wearing a white dinner jacket with a plaid bow tie and matching cummerbund-appropriate attire for greeting customers at the Fat Chance Casino, but a bit out of place in the field. —  Phule Me Twice
  • Tracee Ellis Ross has the height and the elegance to pull off this cummerbund silhouette - no easy task. —  Jezebel
  • Barzani, dressed in an olive military shirt, baggy traditional pantaloons, sash and cummerbund, and a headdress, appeared to grapple with his turbulent relations with Maliki.
  • My mom made a full tux, with a sparkly blue cummerbund, and painted a dowel rod black for my magic wand. —  phillyBurbs.com
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  1. Hindi kamarband, from Persian : kamar, waist + band, band; see bund1.
 

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