sash
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sash¹
- /sæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
noun sashes
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A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
Similar: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband
- A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
- Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”). 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.
verb sashes · sashing · sashed
- To adorn with a sash. 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 powd
sash²
- /sæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
noun sashes
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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
Similar: casement
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A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
Similar: splitter
- The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
- 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 sashes · sashing · sashed
- To furnish with a sash. The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: waistband, waistcloth, girdle, cincture, window sash, scarf, cummerbund, obi, shawl, headband, waist, belt, seatbelt, doorjamb, window, sling
Translations
Every language
noun decorative length of cloth
| 한국어 | 허리띠 heoritti |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 帯 obi |
| 中文 | 飾帶 /饰带 shìdài |
| Kiswahili | shuka |
| Português | faixa |
| Français | écharpe |
| Deutsch | Schärpe |
| Italiano | fascia, sciarpa |
| Ελληνικά | ζώνη zóni |
| Русский | по́яс pójas, куша́к kušák, ле́нта lénta |
| العربية | وِشَاح wišāḥ |
| עברית | אַבְנֵט avnét |
noun opening part of a window
| Español | guillotina, panel, painel |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 窗扇 chuāngshàn, 窗框 chuāngkuàng |
| Français | ventail, battant, ouvrant |
| Deutsch | Schiebeflügel, Fensterflügel, Schieberahmen |
| Italiano | battente, anta, persiana |
| Ελληνικά | ορθοστάτης orthostátis |
noun rectangular frame in which a saw is strained
| Русский | ра́ма ráma |
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title = {sash},
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