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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

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1. s-band

How to pronounce bands?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. Gerard Way:

   You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!

2. Don Felder:

   My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

3. Sir Thomas Beecham:

   Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

4. Harry Reid:

   I don’t know how many people out there could sit down and do 250 sit-ups or do the strength exercise I did with those bands hundreds and hundreds of times -- hundreds of times -- every week, three times a week.

5. Neal Pire:

   If you’re doing squats using those bands, it’s assistance on coming up; if you’re pulling down, it’s giving resistance, it looks useful. So long as the exercises are assisted or resisted appropriately you have a good tool with a lot of variety.

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