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Definition of Cumberbunds
1. cumberbund [n] - See also: cumberbund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumberbunds
Literary usage of Cumberbunds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"... produce brilliant greens and rich blue«, which, when formed into turbans aod
cumberbunds, very agreeably diversity the white dresses of an Indian crowd. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"... produce brilliant greens and rich blues, which, when firmed into turbans and
cumberbunds, very agreeably diversify the white dresses of an Indian crowd. ..."
3. The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens (1873)
"The news had spread, and, before we reached the river, hosts of Malays, Mohammedans,
and Siamese, with some few Chinese, had loosened their cumberbunds ..."
4. From the Gulf to Ararat: An Expedition Through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan by Gilbert Ernest Hubbard (1917)
"Their trousers were cut like a Dutchman's, very voluminous, and caught in tight
round the ankle, and their cumberbunds of flowered cotton or silk so immense ..."
5. Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days by Anna Harriette Leonowens (1884)
"These men go from place to place carrying their curious relics in curtained
baskets slung across their shoulders; their shirts and cumberbunds are filled ..."
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