cummerbund
Syllables: cum·mer·bund/ˈkʌməbʌnd//ˈkʌmɚˌbʌnd/
cummerbund noun: a broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
Noun
cummerbund (plural cummerbunds)
- A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
- All this splendor was set off by a black shawl kummerbund, and blackish upper vest of the cloth called keem-khab, embroidered with large gold leaves. The vest was made like those of all other Mahomedans, but the lower part of it stuck out as you see painted in Indian prints, and altogether...1809 March 6, “Embassy to Cabul, No. II. Description of the Introduction to His Majesty the King of Cabul, of the British Attendants on Mr. Elphinstone, in His Embassy to the King of that Country.”...
- Bounty cloathing is to be allowed, in the firſt inſtance, to the corps of Ordnance Drivers, according to the uſage of the Service, and with the bounty cloathing each individual is to be ſupplied on the formation of the corps with a blue turban and a red cummerbund at the coſt of the Government. […]...1812, chapter V, in Abstract of the General Orders & Regulations in Force in the Honorable East-India Company’s Army, on the Bengal Establishment, Completed to the 1st February, 1812; […], Calcutta...
cummerbund meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati
cummerbund in Hindi
- broad sash
- मेखल mekhal, मेखला mekhlā, कमरबन्द kamarband
cummerbund in Tamil
- கச்சு
cummerbund in Urdu
- broad sash
- کَمَر بَنْد
cummerbund in Gujarati
- cummerbund
- કમરબંદ kamarband
More languagesFewer languages
- cummerbund in Arabic
- حِزَام ḥizām, حِزَام عَرِيض ḥizām ʕarīḍ
- cummerbund in Persian
- کمربند kamarband
Examples of cummerbund in a sentence
- He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.1927, F[anny] E[mily Farr] Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL:
- She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.1994, L[isa] J[ane] Smith, The Chase (The Forbidden Game; II), New York, N.Y.: Archway Paperback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 99:
- The thin boys with their brush cuts and spotty faces, their dinner jackets and burgundy cummerbunds with matching bow ties, would gape at us.2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women: Learning How to Love Them”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 10 May 2016:
Forms of cummerbund
| plural | cummerbunds |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dated) | cumberbund |
| alternative form (dated) | kummerbund |
| alternative form (obsolete) | cummerband |
| alternative form (obsolete) | kamarband |
| alternative form (obsolete) | kumberbund |
Origin of cummerbund
Borrowed from Hindustani کمر بند / कमरबंद (kamarband), from Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband), from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”).
Words formed from cummerbund
Questions about cummerbund
- What does cummerbund mean?
- Cummerbund means a broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
- What is cummerbund in Hindi?
- Cummerbund in Hindi is मेखल (mekhal), मेखला (mekhlā), कमरबन्द (kamarband). See Cummerbund meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use cummerbund in a sentence?
- He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
- What part of speech is cummerbund?
- Cummerbund is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cummerbund?
- Cummerbund is pronounced /ˈkʌməbʌnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cummerbund?
- The plural of cummerbund is cummerbunds.
Words near cummerbund in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cummerbund (page history and authors); cummerbund (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કમરબંદ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-uk-cummerbund.ogg, En-us-Cummerbund.ogg, en-au-cummerbund.ogg.
Cite this entry: “cummerbund.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cummerbund. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.