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  • The vest was of gold brocade, with a cummerband, or sash, around his waist, corresponding to his turban.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • There was a broad silk cummerband about his lean waist, and a gold signet-ring gleamed on his left hand.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • Dressed as an ordinary Pathan, with great flowing white garments, a slatey blue puggery, and with a dagger or two stuck in his cummerband, he sallied forth one dark night, and laid up not far from camp.

    The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

  • The vest was of gold brocade, with a cummerband, or sash, around his waist, corresponding to his turban.

    The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801

  • There are two ways of configuring it: with or without cummerband.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That one was set up for without, then had the cummerband added, hence it looked messy.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That said, it looks too wide across the chest and shoulders, the cummerband looks too complicated to do up, and I am sceptical about the security/stability of mag pouches being attached to the front of the vest.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That one was set up for without, then had the cummerband added, hence it looked messy.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • That said, it looks too wide across the chest and shoulders, the cummerband looks too complicated to do up, and I am sceptical about the security/stability of mag pouches being attached to the front of the vest.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • There are two ways of configuring it: with or without cummerband.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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