Sash Meaning
/sæʃ/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
nounA decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
Sentence Examples
The red sash perfectly accessorizes her black dress.
He wore a red sash across his chest.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a beautiful red ____ around her waist at the ceremony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beauty queen wore a glittering ____ across her gown as she accepted the crown.
Word Origin & History
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Land of Moriah”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 24, page 303:
"One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone."
— 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 91:
""In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.""
— 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter II, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
"She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)!"
— 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2:
"Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]"
— 1915 April, W. A. Hamor, “Description of the New Building of the Mellon Institute”, in The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, page 334:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a beautiful red ____ around her waist at the ceremony.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beauty queen wore a glittering ____ across her gown as she accepted the crown.