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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Urdu
Origin: kamarband, from Persian, from kamar 'waist' + band 'band'

cummerbund

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes
cum‧mer‧bund [countable]
DCC a wide piece of cloth that a man wears around his waist as part of a special suit worn on very formal occasions
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