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cummerbund |
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cummerbund Noun a wide sash worn round the waist, esp. with a dinner jacket [Hindi kamarband, from Persian kamar loins + band band]
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The actors appear on a stage that looks like a giant chessboard - the women in wintry velvets and taffeta, the men in morning coats and cummerbunds - and as they take turns standing and sitting, their music stands grow and contract. that is, except the ornamental panels on matrons' grass-weave cummerbunds and the centerpiece of headbands, for which the common large plastic beads (amaqanda, "eggs") are used (Figs. They disapprove of your wearing ties, suits and cummerbunds to work because this is perceived as a threatening appropriation of male dominance. |
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