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ˈwaistband
Also 6–7 wastband, wastebande.
[f. waist + band n.2]
1. Anything in the fashion of a girdle intended to go round the waist.
1584B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 14 Herewith also were offered the chaynes of the Queene his wyfe, not sparing so much her girdles & wastbands, al which he caused to be dedicated at Delphos. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 5/2 The..messages from Gordon..were..concealed in a quill thrust into the hair or sewn on the waistband of the natives employed.
2. esp. A band fitting about the waist that forms the upper part of a lower garment (skirt, pair of trousers or drawers, or the like) and serves to stiffen or maintain it; sometimes used as a receptacle for money, etc.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 294 He only took him up by the wastband of his breeches, and hung him upon one of the hooks in the shambles. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 134, I pulled it out of the waistband of my drawers. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. v, For the most part reclining with his hands in his waistband, looking at the fire. 1882‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 43 A labourer that had got his wages in his waistband. |