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cummerbund

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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cum·mer·bund /ˈkʌməbʌnd $ -ər-/ noun [countable]  DCCa wide piece of cloth that a man wears around his waist as part of a special suit worn on very formal occasions 〔男子在极正式场合佩戴的〕宽腰带
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cummerbundSeveral delegates turned up to the banquet wearing dinner jackets with camouflage bow ties and cummerbunds.You draped your best cummerbund over the lampshade?The page wore an ivory silk shirt and trousers with a blue cummerbund.In green ties, red epaulettes and blue cummerbunds we lined up.Lionel, in his bright red cummerbund.After wrestling with it as though I were Laocobn, I gave up altogether on the cummerbund.
Origin cummerbund (1600-1700) Urdu kamarband, from Persian, from kamar waist + band band
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cummerbund
cummerbund /ˈkʌməbʌnd $ -ər-/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: Urdu
 Origin: kamarband, from Persian, from kamar 'waist' + band 'band'
a wide piece of cloth that a man wears around his waist as part of a special suit worn on very formal occasions


cum·mer·bundBrE /ˈkʌməbʌnd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkʌmərbʌnd/ 🔊 nouna wide band of silk, etc. worn around the waist, especially under a dinner jacket (尤指男式晚礼服的)宽腰带