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Definition of cummerbund in English English dictionary
- A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a tuxedo or dinner jacket
The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.
- A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress. a wide piece of cloth that a man wears around his waist as part of a special suit worn on very formal occasions (kamarband, from , from kamar + band )
- A shawl or wide ribbon, usually worn around the waist or wrapped around the body Most often worn with summer formal wear Wide ribbons sometimes worn by diplomats and state functionaries at formal occasions are known by this name
- Accessory; a broad sash worn over the waistband of the pants Pleats are worn with the opening facing up
- Pleated sash worn around the waist Worn instead of a vest or suspenders Worn with pleats facing up
- Waistband of solid black silk made with pleats, to be worn with dinner jacket
- {i} wide belt
- A sash for the waist; a girdle
- a broad waistband usually worn in place of a vest with men's dress clothes and adapted in various styles of women's clothes
- a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
- cumberbund
- misspelling of cummerbund
- cummerbunds
- plural of cummerbund
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[ 'k&-m&r-"b&nd, 'k& ] (noun.) 1616. From Hindustani कमरबन्द / کمر بند (kamar-band, “waistband, belt”), from Persian کمربند (kamar-band), from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”).Resimler
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