English

A cummerbund

Alternative forms

• cummerband
• kummerbund

Noun

cummerbund ‎(plural cummerbunds)

1. A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     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.

   • 2005, Edmund White, “My Women”, in: The New Yorker

     The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.

Descendants

• German: Kummerbund

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