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wristband

[ rist-band ]

noun

  1. the band of a sleeve, especially that of a shirt sleeve, that covers the wrist.
  2. a strap attached to a wrist watch and worn around the wrist.
  3. a sweatband worn on the wrist to absorb perspiration.


wristband

/ ˈrɪstˌbænd /

noun

  1. a band around the wrist, esp one attached to a watch or forming part of a long sleeve
  2. a sweatband around the wrist


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wristband1

First recorded in 1565–75; wrist + band 2

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Example Sentences

The folks at PTI should have made Rice reinforce his own awareness by wearing a purple wristband.

Seriously athletes wear heart-rate monitors, not wristband trackers.

Similarly the Kapture is “an audio-recording wristband for saving and sharing what was just said,” according to its brochure.

The Pebble comes close, but it still looks like a computer sitting on a wristband.

In scenes, he almost always wore a thick wristband and a smile on his face, his friends told The Daily Beast when he died.

Their voluminousness of wristband, with an air of excessive frankness, should betray them at once.

Another little thing that might have helped was the cabman's number written on his wristband.

And at the last moment I could not make out what I had written on my wristband as a mem.

Believe us, reader, there is no more distinctive mark of a correct man than a snowy-white wristband, always to be visible.

It marked all faces, and it lodged between neck and neckband and wrist and wristband where it chafed the skin.

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