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waistbands

  • plural
    of waistband.
    waistband
    noun
    a band encircling the waist, especially as a part of a skirt or pair of trousers.

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Among the new nonnegotiables: fleece vests instead of jackets and elastic waistbands instead of “hard pants,” i.e., anything with a zipper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

So we sink into the couch, plates on laps, clothed in pants with elastic waistbands.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

"Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service," he said in an opinion piece for the Telegraph.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024

“Their breasts were tied to their waistbands, they had four or five babies wrapped around them and they had baskets on their head,” he recalled by phone in advance of his book’s launch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

They had a special name for those cotton waistbands: sennimbari.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac