Definitions and meaning of sash
sash
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæʃ/
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- Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
Noun
sash (plural sashes)
- A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- Synonyms: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband
- A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
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Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) 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,[2]
- […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
Etymology 2
[circa 1680] From sashes, from 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
sash (plural sashes)
- The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood and T. Edling, p. 91,[3]
- One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and writes upon the Glass of the Sash in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.
- 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),[4]
- Away to the window I flew like a flash,
- Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
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- 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2,[5]
- 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)!
- (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- Synonym: splitter
- In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
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Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) To furnish with a sash.
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2,[6]
- The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,
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Anagrams
Source: wiktionary.org- SASARARA, a scolding; a blow.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)