What does "sash" mean?
A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
Sash
/sæʃ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- Grammar: sash is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: girdle, waistband, badge, band.
- Useful contrasts: detach, remove, unbelt.
- Usage evidence: The red sash perfectly accessorizes her black dress.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- 2 The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
"Near-synonym: casement"
- 3 a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers wordnet
- 4 A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
- 5 A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
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- 6 a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame wordnet
- 7 Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”). alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people."
- 8 The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
- 9 A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.
"Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]"
Verb
- 1 To adorn with a sash. transitive
"1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46, […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs."
- 2 To furnish with a sash. transitive
"The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,"
Example
"The red sash perfectly accessorizes her black dress."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "sash"?
Common synonyms include: girdle, waistband, badge, band, belt, cadre.
How do you use "sash" in a sentence?
The red sash perfectly accessorizes her black dress.
How do you pronounce "sash"?
Pronounced /sæʃ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
Etymology 2
From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.