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waistband
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waistband
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fashionable lacing on the waistband of these trousers helps to accentuate a trim figure.
▪ Feeling an itch under her waistband, Fourth Aunt reached down and plucked out something fat and meaty.
▪ In the gap between the brassière and the pinched waistband of her skirt, her flesh bulged in a pale soft band.
▪ Made from 100% nylon these trousers have an elasticated & tie-cord waistband + stirrup legs.
▪ Other features: semi-elasticated waistband with belt loops.
▪ Roll up the waistband like a belt and the pleats will roll into one another.
▪ Runnels of sweat darkened the front of his white shirt and spread in a line along his waistband.
▪ She tugged at her skirt and adjusted her waistband.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waistband

Waistband \Waist"band\, n.

  1. The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

  2. A sash worn by women around the waist. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waistband

1580s, from waist + band (n.1).

Wiktionary
waistband

n. A band of fabric encircling the waist, especially a part of a pair of pants or a skirt.

WordNet
waistband

n. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers [syn: girdle, cincture, sash, waistcloth]

Usage examples of "waistband".

At her dark purple bandeau top that showed a bit of cleavage and flirted with her navel and the waistband of her python miniskirt.

The beeper attached to my waistband went off just as the waitress returned with my iced coffee.

Mike squinted to look at the number displayed on his beeper, which must have been vibrating on his waistband, while I went on talking.

Two of them had cleavers under their jackets, one had a switchblade and Fei himself had a pistol in his waistband.

I tried again, folding the waistband so that it had an elasticized side against the hook as well as against the nut.

So it was several seconds before she realized that the elasticized waistband had gotten caught on the most prominent part of his lower anatomy.

Andrea slipped her gun into her waistband and gathered Eppie in her arms.

He threw the gisarme to one side, pulled the pellet pistol from his waistband and threw that away too.

As soon as I conceived this idea I felt curious to see whether Armelline would discover any jealousy if I shewed myself really in love with Scholastica, and if the latter pronounced me to be too daring, for hitherto my hands had not crossed the Rubicon of their waistbands.

I could see its hilt protruding from the waistband of a Mongolian-looking person who was dressed like a Cossack, high kaftan and all.

He undipped a fat purse from his waistband and tossed it over to Kirin, who caught it and pulled the drawstring.

I made a show of tucking the Krait into my waistband at the small of my back.

He returned to the bedroom, turned the key noiselessly, pulled the automatic out of his waistband, and stepped into the garden, moving fast and making no more noise than a cat.

The marquis leaned back against a wall with his thumbs tucked into his waistband and, with a rather bored air, watched several men playing a game called skittles on a pocketless billiard table.

He had on a white cotton pullover today, and I could see the outline of a gun stuck in the waistband of his tight pocketless gray slacks.