DCHP-3

Red River belt

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a belt or waistband, often of worsted and of bright design, as the L'Assomption sash, characteristic of French Canada and long identified with the voyageurs and Métis.

See: sash

Quotations

1909
Then unwinding his own parti-colored, closely-woven Red River belt, "Would the great white shemogonis (warrior)," he whispered, "accept the simple sash of the Shawanese in return?"