- a variation of cummerbund.
kummerbund
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He abhorred Denison on account of Susie and the kummerbund.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
Also that night she brought him a blue silk kummerbund streaked with scarlet, and laid it on his pillow, with a written intimation that it was sent 'with fondiest love from Susie S. Fat.'
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
On top of them descended from the waggon on high a flame-coloured shock of hair surmounting a freckled face, a covert coat, a kummerbund, and cloth gaiters.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
Round his waist he wore a dhotee of coarse muslin, tight above, so as to form the kummerbund, or waistband, but thence falling in loose and not ungraceful folds down the legs to the ankles.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
Was it an apparition, or was that under the kummerbund a bit of kilt and an end of sporran?
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
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