Cummerbund

Quick meaning: Cummerbund is a noun meaning (fashion) A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.

Meaning

(fashion) A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.

Example Sentences

She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.

The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.

Next came a domeshaped sukhpal (palanquin), its silver plated pole being borne by eight sturdy troopers wearing red flowing kurtas, silk kamarbunds, and silk dungarees.

Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.

Word Forms

• cummerbunds
• cumberbund
• cummerband

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obi, sash, cummerband, cumerbund, cumberbund, kamarband.

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