SASH

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

Synonyms:

cincture; girdle; sash; waistband; waistcloth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sash" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sash"):

cummerbund (a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame

Synonyms:

sash; window sash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sash" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sash"):

casement (a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side))

Holonyms ("sash" is a part of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

Credits

Context examples:

Ashputtel’s two sisters were asked to come; so they called her up, and said, “Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king’s feast.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They could not but hold her cheap on finding that she had but two sashes, and had never learned French; and when they perceived her to be little struck with the duet they were so good as to play, they could do no more than make her a generous present of some of their least valued toys, and leave her to herself, while they adjourned to whatever might be the favourite holiday sport of the moment, making artificial flowers or wasting gold paper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now don't forget to keep the bad breadth out of sight, Jo. Is my sash right?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He walked on tiptoe under the shadow of the wall, and when he reached the window he worked a long-bladed knife through the sash and pushed back the catch.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then with a long, thin knife we pushed back the fastening of the sashes and opened the window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had turned suddenly, and his long, thin finger was pointing to a hole which had been drilled right through the lower window-sash, about an inch above the bottom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water came in.