sash

English

Girl wearing a red sash (painting by Maria Matilda Brooks)

Dutch governor general wearing a yellow sash (painting by Cornelis Kruseman)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/sæʃ/

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• Rhymes:-æʃ

Etymology 1

FromArabicشَاش(šāš,“muslin cloth”).

Noun

sash(pluralsashes)

2. (clothing)A piece ofclothdesigned to be worn around thewaist.

   Synonyms:belt,cummerbund,obi,waistband

4. (clothing)Adecorativelength ofclothworn over theshoulderto the oppositehip,often forceremonialor otherformaloccasions.
5. (obsolete)Alternative spelling ofshash(“thescarfof aturban”)
   • 1650,Thomas Fuller,“The Land of Moriah”, inA 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,page303:

     So much for the ſilk inJudeacalledSheſhin Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is calledShaſhesvvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.

Derived terms

• lap sash seatbelt
• sash belt
• sashery
• undersash
• unsash

Translations

decorative length of cloth

• Azerbaijani:belbağı,qurşaq(az)
• Bulgarian:пояс(bg)m(pojas)
• Czech:šerpa(cs)f
• Danish:skærfn
• Dutch:sjerp(nl)
• Finnish:nauha(fi),vyö(fi)
• French:écharpe(fr)f
• German:Schärpe(de)f
• Greek:ζώνη(el)f(zóni)
• Hebrew:אַבְנֵט(he)m(avnét)
• Italian:fascia(it)f,sciarpa(it)f
• Kashubian:szerpaf
• Korean:허리띠(heoritti)
• Macedonian:по́јас(mk)m(pójas),ѕу́ницаf(dzúnica)
• Malay:sawat(ms)
• Maori:tāpeka(worn across the shoulder)
• Navajo:sis
• Persian:بروفه(phát)(borufe)
• Polish:pas(pl)m,szarfa(pl)f
• Portuguese:faixa(pt)f
• Russian:по́яс(ru)m(pójas),куша́к(ru)m(kušák)(belt),ле́нта(ru)f(lénta)(tape, ribbon, band)
• Serbo-Croatian:ešarpa(sh)
• Spanish:banda(es)f
• Swahili:shuka(sw)
• Swedish:skärp(sv)n
• Ukrainian:поясm(pojas),перев'язm(perevʺjaz)

waistband—seewaistband

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• French:^{(pleaseverify)}large ceinture à noeud

Verb

sash(third-person singular simple presentsashes,present participlesashing,simple past and past participlesashed)

1. (transitive)Toadornwith a sash.
   • 1796,Edmund Burke,Letters on a Regicide Peace,Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, inThe Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke,London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,^[2]

     […]theCostumeof theSans-culotteConstitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable[…]but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, andsashedand plumed, that[…]there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependantTetrarchs.

Etymology 2

Fromsashes,fromFrenchchâssis(“frame (of a window or door)”),taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century.See alsochassis.

Woman and boy standing at an open sash window

Noun

sash(pluralsashes)

1. The opening part (casement) of awindowusually containing theglasspanes,hinged to thejamb,or sliding up and down as in asash window.[circa 1680]
   • 1722(indicated as1721),[Daniel Defoe],The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c.[…],London:[…]W[illiam Rufus]Chetwood,[…];and T. Edling,[…],published1722,→OCLC,page91:

     One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of theSaſhin 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” ),^[3]

     Away to the window I flew like a flash,

     Tore open the shutters, and threw up thesash.

   • 1851November 14,Herman Melville,chapter II, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale,1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers;London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page10:

     "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 thatsashlesswindow, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier. "

   • 1908,Arnold Bennett,The Old Wives’ Tale‎^[4],Book 4, Chapter 2:

     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-fittingsash(it was put right now)!

2. (software,graphical user interface)A draggableverticalorhorizontalbar used to adjust the relative sizes of twoadjacentwindows.

   Synonym:splitter

3. (sawmilling)Therectangularframein which thesawisstrainedand by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; thegate.
4. (chemistry)Awindow-like part of afume hoodwhich can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier betweenchemicalsand people.
   • 1915April, W. A. Hamor, “Description of the New Building of the Mellon Institute”, inThe Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry‎^[5],page334:

     Each hood is equipped with two slidingsashes,glazed with polished plate wire-glass;[…]

   • 2008,Kenneth L. Williamson, Katherine M. Masters,Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments‎^[6],published2015,→ISBN,page35:

     […]it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when thesashis pulled down.

Derived terms

• French sash
• sash cord
• sash door
• sashless
• sash weight
• sash window
• unsash

Translations

opening part of a window

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Khung cửa sổ(zh)(chuāngshàn),Khung cửa sổ(zh)(chuāngkuàng)

• Dutch:schuifraam(nl)n,
• Finnish:ikkuna(fi);ikkunanpuite
• French:ventail(fr)m,battant(fr)m,ouvrant(fr)m
• German:Schiebeflügelm,Fensterflügel(de)m,Schieberahmenm
• Greek:ορθοστάτης(el)m(orthostátis)
• Italian:battente(it)m,anta(it)f,persiana(it)f
• Ottoman Turkish:چرچوه(çerçeve)
• Swedish:fönsterbågec,båge(sv)c

graphical user interface: draggable bar

• Finnish:kehys(fi)

rectangular frame in which a saw is strained

• Finnish:raami(fi)
• Russian:ра́ма(ru)f(ráma)

Verb

sash(third-person singular simple presentsashes,present participlesashing,simple past and past participlesashed)

1. (transitive)To furnish with a sash.
   • 1741,Samuel Richardson,Pamela‎^[7],London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2:

     The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have themsash’d,

Derived terms

• unsashed

Anagrams

• shas,šâhs,šāhs