sash

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[ sash ]
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noun
  1. a long band or scarf worn over one shoulder or around the waist, as by military officers as a part of the uniform or by women and children for ornament.

verb (used with object)
  1. to furnish or adorn with a sash: a dress sashed at the waist.

Origin of sash

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1585–95; dissimilated variant of shash (turban of) muslin <Arabic shāsh

Other words from sash

  • sashless, adjective

Other definitions for sash (2 of 2)

sash2
[ sash ]

noun
  1. a fixed or movable framework, as in a window or door, in which panes of glass are set.

  2. such frameworks collectively.

verb (used with object)
  1. to furnish with sashes or with windows having sashes.

Origin of sash

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1675–85; back formation from sashes (plural), dissimilated variant of shasheschassis

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How to use sash in a sentence

  • Its sashless windows and defective chinks were gilded with the yellow light that comes from a glowing hearth.

    Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Melinda Cree's black hair and dark masses of wrinkles showed through a sashless shed window where she stood at her ironing-board.

    The Mothers Of Honor | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • A grapevine grew in front, and its graceful tendrils twined in and out through the sashless windows and the broken door.

    The Rector of St. Mark's | Mary J. Holmes
  • It almost touched the hut, and its top was very near to a sashless aperture in the attic.

    Ralph on the Engine | Allen Chapman
  • It was from a sashless window in one of these that the angry voices came.

    Lady Baltimore | Owen Wister

British Dictionary definitions for sash (1 of 2)

sash1

/ (sæʃ) /


noun
  1. a long piece of ribbon, silk, etc, worn around the waist like a belt or over one shoulder, as a symbol of rank

Origin of sash

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C16: from Arabic shāsh muslin

British Dictionary definitions for sash (2 of 2)

sash2

/ (sæʃ) /


noun
  1. a frame that contains the panes of a window or door

verb(tr)
  1. to furnish with a sash, sashes, or sash windows

Origin of sash

2
C17: originally plural sashes, variant of shashes, from chassis

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