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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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 picture at L'Assomption sash.]
See: belt(def. 2),ceinture,Indian sash,L'Assomption sash(and picture),Red River belt,scarf-belt,voyageur sash
Quotations
1791
The habitants call it [a hooded coat] a capitshaw, and their coats are tied round with a coloured worsted sash.
1801
. . . Cadottes . . . overtook them before noon . . . [and] they restored the Sash. . . .
1961
Then he gave to each of the older men a suit of underwear and the younger, a toque, pair of mittens and a sash.