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- noun Common misspelling of
cummerbunds .
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Examples
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That said, I have sold several black wool dresses with black satin cumberbunds, so maybe, as the others have suggested, satin would be the way to go.
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The young men in the band were dressed in black tuxedos, with bright red bowties and cumberbunds.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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Watching the boys somberly lead my sisters out onto the dance floor, I thought they looked like young African princes in their little kente-cloth caps and matching cumberbunds and wilted bow ties.
Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995
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Orofenans had brought these with our other possessions, and put them on, even adding silk cumberbunds and neckties.
When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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