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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo

Merriam Webster's

also cumberbund noun Etymology: Hindi & Urdu kamarband, from Persian, from kamar waist + band band Date: 1616 a broad waistband usually worn in place of a vest with men's dress clothes and adapted in various styles of women's clothes

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a waist sash. Etymology: Hind. & Pers. kamar-band loin-band

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cummerbund Cum"mer*bund`, n. [Written also kummerbund, cummerband, etc.] [Hind. kamarband, fr. Per. Kamar loins + band fastening.] A sash for the waist; a girdle. [India]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cummerbunds) A cummerbund is a wide piece of cloth worn round the waist as part of a man's evening dress. N-COUNT