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UK
/kˈʌməbˌʌnd/
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NOUN
- a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
How To Use cummerbund In A Sentence
- The soldiers are smartly dressed: they were khaki uniforms, ornate red, yellow and black cummerbunds and matching collars, turbaned and tasselled headgear, and badges of the BSF.
- You wore your cummerbund with the stars and stripes.
- The plan - which Afghan officials have dubbed a "cummerbund" - could falter quickly if Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE
- The rules were simple: he was to show up with a gardenia corsage and wear a black tux with a peach cummerbund.
- Vests under the dinner jackets must have been uncomfortable to wear in the Indian heat, so the sahibs tied a bandana around their waists (kamar in Urdu) and began calling it a cummerbund.
- His qaba and the wrapping of his turban were silk; there were diamonds in his aigrette, pearls around his neck and on his hands, diamonds glittering on the broad cummerbund around his waist, just visible to the men standing below through the stone railing of the balcony ledge. Shadow Princess
- The rules were simple: he was to show up with a gardenia corsage and wear a black tux with a peach cummerbund.
- At a private screening of his latest oeuvre – a 40-minute music video entitled Runaway – West took to the stage in black shades and a brown leather cummerbund to tell the select audience that "I am the tree and the people are the branches" before going on to compare his new album to "the abstracted works of later Matisse or Picasso". Kanye West: Mister Perfection is stylishly reinventing the rules of rap
- After wrestling with it as though I were Laocobn, I gave up altogether on the cummerbund.
- Tommy, dressed in a white tux with a gray cummerbund and tie, had his arm firmly around Emily's waist.