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Cummerbund's place
Answer for the clue "Cummerbund's place ", 5 letters:
waist
Alternative clues for the word waist
Word definitions for waist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "middle part of the body," also "part of a garment fitted for the waist, portion of a garment that covers the waist" (but, due to fashion styles, often above or below it), probably from Old English *wæst "growth," hence, "where the body grows," ...
Usage examples of waist.
His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.
The alchemist aimed a finger at the woman and her hair grew to her waist.
Seregil paid his price without quibbling and Maklin threw in a sword belt, showing Alec how to wrap it twice around his waist 63 and fix the lacings so that the blade hung at the proper angle against his left hip.
Flinging his sword aside, he seized Alec around the waist and heaved him over the parapet.
It showed a man in antique clothing standing behind a fossil ammonite that almost reached his waist.
In front of him as he sat on the angareb her eyes were at the same level as his waist.
At her waist the tapestry aulmoniere remained firmly attached, though bedraggled.
Now she watched everything avidly, her grip on his waist and the back of his saddle just enough to keep her steady and balanced, and when he looked back at her, she was smiling, and her kohl-lined eyes were wide and bright.
He clenched his fist over the golden axes on his black tunic coat and bowed jerkily from the waist.
She were lying under a down quiltme wedding gift to the bride, Hindoo lady up in Ponda sewed it for mebut just as we came in she shrugged it off, and you could see her bare as a babby to the waist.
Its clothing was singular, to say the leasthigh-topped brogans of black leather, baggy pantaloons and baggier shirt of what looked to be a good-quality cloth in the hue of a dark-green olive, what might have been a broad sword belt cinching the waist, but no visible weapons and no armor except the close-fitting helmet.
The men throw several baht notes onto the bar, then depart, thick arms clasped around the tiny waists of their companions.
He had a bandanna for a headband, sunglasses, a collection of silver pendants around his neck on cords, a water bottle at his waist, no shirt, baggy shorts, and Velcro-strapped sandals.
Anoshi and Bap were dressed in the undersuiting that went with their spacesuits, including even biomedical sensors and the semi-bulky EMU urine collection systems about their crotches and waists.
The cadaver is shown from the waist up, so I cannot say whether Barbet dressed him Jesus-style in swaddling undergarments, but I can say that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the monologuist Spalding Gray.