Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cummerbund.

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Examples

  • Then from the _kamarband_, or broad cloth encircling his waist like a sash, he produced two bottles of soda-water which he opened and gave to them.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • The figure, perfect in its manliness, if marred by the too heavy muscular development of the throat and the slightly bowed shoulders, looked well in the jacket of Service khâki, the Bedford cords and puttees and spurred brown boots that had replaced the worn white drills, the blue shirt and shabby black kamarband and canvas shoes.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • In the matter of men's clothing it was gratifying to find the ugly pleated frockcoats discarded -- or, rather, never adopted -- and long picturesque shirts and ample trousers worn instead, held together by a kamarband.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • In addition to these there are of course common cloth or fur caps with ear-flaps; and it is not uncommon to see, in Tibet, soldiers wearing a silk kamarband bound tightly round the head, turban-fashion, with one end left hanging down over the ear.

    In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • One man wore a gaudy coat trimmed with leopard skin, another had a long grey woollen robe like a dressing-gown, taken up at the waist by a kamarband, and a third was garbed in a loose raiment of sheepskin, with the wool inside.

    In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • The ragged black moustache had been shaved away; the frayed but spotless suit of white drill fitted the heavy-shouldered, thin-flanked, muscular figure perfectly; the faded blue flannel shirt, with the white double collar and narrow black tie; the shabby black kamarband about his waist, the black-ribboned Panama, maintaining respectability in extremest old age, as that expensive but lasting headgear is wont to do, possessed, as worn by the Dop Doctor, a certain _cachet_ of style.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • a knitted silk necktie of his Regimental colours, and a kamarband to match is wound about his narrow, springy waist, and knotted to perfection.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

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