Crossword clues for cummerbund
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cummerbund \Cum"mer*bund`\, n. [Written also kummerbund, cummerband, etc.] [Hind. kamarband, fr. Per. Kamar loins + band fastening.] A sash for the waist; a girdle. [India]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Hindi kamarband "loin band," from Persian kamar "waist" + band "something that ties," from Avestan banda- "bond, fetter," from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (see bend (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
WordNet
n. a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
Wikipedia
A cummerbund ( kamarband) is a broad waist sash, usually pleated, which is often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets (or tuxedos). The cummerbund is an Asian-origin garment which was first adopted by British military officers in colonial India when they were exposed to Indian men wearing it. It was adopted as an alternative to a waistcoat, and later spread to civilian use. The modern use of the cummerbund to Europeans is as a component of a traditional black tie event.
Usage examples of "cummerbund".
He wore a varicolored Dacron wash-and-wear suit, knit cummerbund and dip-dyed cheese-cloth cravat.
Holden drew to a halt and hitched his thumbs in the bright cummerbund around his waist.
Derek stood resplendent in a black tuxedo with a black cummerbund and tie, devilishly handsome and yet all he felt was gloom.
Jason was spinning his cummerbund around, trying to unfasten it without putting down the salad bowl.
But our theory is that Deena Scott advertises in the newspapers so that she can get men to take her to the Cummerbund and pay for the top-price menu items that she orders.
He was dressed in an exact duplicate of his dress uniform, complete with cummerbund and Jupegas gun.
She watched him move about her kitchen in his partially unbuttoned shirt, maroon cummerbund and tuxedo pants, and found herself reacting to his nearness at the same time she puzzled over the strangeness of her response.
We went over to Eighth Street, to a little delicatessen I know, and walked through to the back where Cummerbund holds dominion over a twelve-table kingdom.
Hardly anybody but the hip go to the delicatessen to eat, and Cummerbund is part of the reason those who do go come back often.
They just have to get red cummerbunds and bow ties to go with their tuxes.
During the last half-dozen curtain-calls I had told Martina my problem and, in a moment of hilarious intimacy, she helped gimmick the cummerbund before unleashing me into the first bipedal can we could find.
The Killadar, who was dressed for battle in a clean white robe girdled by a red cummerbund and hung with a jewelled scabbard, looked horrified.
The Killadar, who was dressed for battle in a clean white robe girdled by a red cummerbund and hung with a jeweled scabbard, looked horrified.
He was a sallow, liverish individual, narrow as a slat except for a hard round belly that made a bulge under a crimson cummerbund.
He put on his diving hood, then slid his arms into his vestlike buoyancy compensator-the double bladders of which would draw their air from his tank-and fastened the quickrelease buckles of its cummerbund around his waist.