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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌməbʌnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkʌmɚˌbʌnd/ [General-American], /ˈkʌmbɚˌbʌnd/ [General-American, proscribed] Audio: en-uk-cummerbund.ogg , En-us-Cummerbund.ogg , en-au-cummerbund.ogg Forms: cummerbunds [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کمر بند / कमरबंद (kamarband), from Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband), from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”). Etymology templates: {{refn|By David Ring, from the collection of the ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Fashion Museum of the Province of Antwerp) in Antwerp, Belgium.|group=n|name=n1}}, {{refn|From the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, UK.|group=n|name=n2}}, {{bor+|en|inc-hnd}} Borrowed from Hindustani, {{der|en|fa-cls|کمربند|tr=kamarband}} Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband) Head templates: {{en-noun}} cummerbund (plural cummerbunds)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Victoria and Albert Museum Categories (topical): Fashion Synonyms: kamarband, kamarbund, cummerband, kumberbund, kummerbund [dated] Derived forms: cummerbunded Translations (broad sash): حِزَام (ḥizām) [masculine] (Arabic), حِزَام عَرِيض (ḥizām ʕarīḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), пояс (pojas) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 腹帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 腹带 (fùdài) (Chinese Mandarin), 寬腰帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 宽腰带 (kuānyāodài) (Chinese Mandarin), 裝飾帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 装饰带 (zhuāngshìdài) (Chinese Mandarin), brede ceintuur [feminine] (Dutch), smokkivyö (Finnish), large ceinture [feminine] (French), Kummerbund [masculine] (German), אבנט (Hebrew), कमरबन्द (kamarband) [masculine] (Hindi), övkendő (Hungarian), lindi [masculine] (Icelandic), fascia di seta [feminine] (Italian), fascia di smoking [feminine] (Italian), کمربند (kamarband) (Persian), pas smokingowy [masculine] (Polish), camarabando [masculine] (Portuguese), широ́кий по́яс под смо́кингом (širókij pójas pod smókingom) [masculine] (Russian), куша́к (kušák) [masculine] (Russian), ле́нта-по́яс (lénta-pójas) [masculine] (Russian), široki pojas [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), faja ancha [feminine] (Spanish), livgördel (Swedish), maggördel [common-gender] (Swedish), kuşak (Turkish), کَمَر بَنْد (english: kamar band) [masculine] (Urdu)

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          "text": "Bounty cloathing is to be allowed, in the firſt inſtance, to the corps of Ordnance Drivers, according to the uſage of the Service, and with the bounty cloathing each individual is to be ſupplied on the formation of the corps with a blue turban and a red cummerbund at the coſt of the Government. […] the uniform turban and cummerbund to be afterwards provided by individuals, and kept up at their own expence.",
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          "text": "She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.",
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        "3": "کمربند",
        "tr": "kamarband"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindustani کمر بند / कमरबंद (kamarband), from Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband), from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”).",
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    {
      "form": "cummerbunds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
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    "cum‧mer‧bund"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "en:Fashion"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1809 March 6, “Embassy to Cabul, No. II. Description of the Introduction to His Majesty the King of Cabul, of the British Attendants on Mr. Elphinstone, in His Embassy to the King of that Country.”, in The Literary Panorama, volume VIII, London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, […], for C. Taylor, […], published November 1810, →OCLC, column 1329:",
          "text": "All this splendor was set off by a black shawl kummerbund, and blackish upper vest of the cloth called keem-khab, embroidered with large gold leaves. The vest was made like those of all other Mahomedans, but the lower part of it stuck out as you see painted in Indian prints, and altogether destroyed his figure; and the kummerbund was large and heavy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1812, chapter V, in Abstract of the General Orders & Regulations in Force in the Honorable East-India Company’s Army, on the Bengal Establishment, Completed to the 1st February, 1812; […], Calcutta: Printed by R. W. Walker, […], →OCLC, page 196:",
          "text": "Bounty cloathing is to be allowed, in the firſt inſtance, to the corps of Ordnance Drivers, according to the uſage of the Service, and with the bounty cloathing each individual is to be ſupplied on the formation of the corps with a blue turban and a red cummerbund at the coſt of the Government. […] the uniform turban and cummerbund to be afterwards provided by individuals, and kept up at their own expence.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1818, James Johnson, “Dress”, in The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions. […], 2nd greatly enlarged edition, London: Sold by T. and G. Underwood, [et al.]; printed for the author, by Mottley and Harrison, […], →OCLC, page 384:",
          "text": "[W]e observe both Hindoo and Mahomedan guarding most consciously against solar heat, as well as cold. The turban and cummerbund meet our eye at every step:—the former, to defend the head from the direct rays of a powerful sun; the latter, apparently, for the purpose of preserving the important viscera of the abdomen from the deleterious impressions of cold. This [cummerbund] is certainly a most valuable part of their dress; and one that is highly deserving of imitation. […] In situations where atmospherical vicissitudes are sudden, a fine shawl round the waist forms an excellent cummerbund, and should never be neglected, especially by those who have been some time in the country, or whose bowels are in any degree tender.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume II (The Surgeon’s Daughter), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 353:",
          "text": "Richard Middlemas, as the Begum's general or Buckshee, walked nearest to her litter, in a dress as magnificent in itself as it was remote from all European costume, being that of a Banka, or Indian courtier. […] The vest was of gold brocade, with a cummerband, or sash, around his waist, corresponding to his turban.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, F[anny] E[mily Farr] Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Tapan Ghosh, The Adventures of Shivaji, page 140:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, L[isa] J[ane] Smith, The Chase (The Forbidden Game; II), New York, N.Y.: Archway Paperback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women: Learning How to Love Them”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2016-05-10:",
          "text": "The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fashion",
          "fashion"
        ],
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          "broad",
          "broad#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "sash",
          "sash"
        ],
        [
          "pleated",
          "pleat#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "lengthwise",
          "lengthwise"
        ],
        [
          "article",
          "article"
        ],
        [
          "formal",
          "formal#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "dress",
          "dress#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "waist",
          "waist"
        ],
        [
          "tuxedo",
          "tuxedo"
        ],
        [
          "dinner jacket",
          "dinner jacket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fashion",
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon",
        "ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen",
        "Victoria and Albert Museum"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈkʌməbʌnd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌmɚˌbʌnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌmbɚˌbʌnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "proscribed"
      ]
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kamarband"
    },
    {
      "word": "kamarbund"
    },
    {
      "word": "cummerband"
    },
    {
      "word": "kumberbund"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "kummerbund"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥizām",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "حِزَام"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥizām ʕarīḍ",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "حِزَام عَرِيض"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pojas",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пояс"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "腹帶"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fùdài",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "腹带"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "寬腰帶"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kuānyāodài",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "宽腰带"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "裝飾帶"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuāngshìdài",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "装饰带"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brede ceintuur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "smokkivyö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "large ceinture"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kummerbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "אבנט"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kamarband",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "कमरबन्द"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "övkendő"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lindi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fascia di seta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fascia di smoking"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kamarband",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "کمربند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pas smokingowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camarabando"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "širókij pójas pod smókingom",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "широ́кий по́яс под смо́кингом"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kušák",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "куша́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lénta-pójas",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ле́нта-по́яс"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "široki pojas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "faja ancha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "livgördel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "maggördel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "word": "kuşak"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "english": "kamar band",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "broad sash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "کَمَر بَنْد"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cummerbund"
}

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