Definitions for bands
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1. Bands

   Bands are a form of formal neckwear, worn by some clergy and lawyers, and with some forms of academic dress. They take the form of two oblong pieces of cloth, usually though not invariably white, which are tied to the neck. Bands is usually plural because they require two similar parts and did not come as one piece of cloth. Those worn by clergy are often called preaching bands, tabs or Geneva bands; those worn by lawyers are called barrister's bands or, more usually in Canada, tabs. Ruffs were popular in the sixteenth century, and remained so till the late 1640s, alongside the more fashionable standing and falling bands. Ruffs, like bands, were sewn to a fairly deep neck-band. They could be either standing or falling ruffs. Standing ruffs were common with legal, and official dress till comparatively late. Falling ruffs were popular c.1615-40s.

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1. Bands

   of clergymen and barristers. See Band (2).

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bands' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4411

Anagrams for bands »

1. s-band

How to pronounce bands?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say bands in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bands in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bands in a Sentence

1. Nadia Comaneci:

   The fascinating thing for us to bring home to Romania was bubble gum, coloured socks and coloured hair clips. These were things we did n’t have in Romania at the time, we only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

2. Chris Gaffney:

   The Fed's going to remain on hold for the foreseeable future, as long as GDP growth and inflation doesn't move outside of the bands that we're stuck in, anchored right around 2%.

3. Diana Kerwin:

   We had one patient with a gun with rubber bands that he would shoot and he was fine with that, he was used to shooting varmints. You try to help them maintain the lifestyle they always had.

4. Alice Cooper:

   It's amazing when we go out on tour... The first 50 rows are 15 to 25 (year olds)... They're having the most fun. The reason they're there is because their bands are not producing, there's very little danger in rock and roll anymore.

5. Mick Fleetwood:

   I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

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