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obi

[oh-bee, aw-bee] / ˈoʊ bi, ˈɔ bi /


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Think garden party for the daytime looks, with pretty embroidered shoes and hats complementing ensembles of unstructured jackets and textured trousers accented by obi belts.

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 2024

“The present is a gift,” she said, fan tucked in her obi — the wide kimono sash — pink and white parasol in her Hello Kitty shoulder bag.

From Washington Post Mar. 23, 2022

Then she reversed them, nodded, and cinched it all together with an obi sash, “O.K., O.K. O.K.”

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2018

They reminded me of Japanese obi sashes, those sometimes ornately knotted strips of brocade.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2017

Once she saw my father use the obi, the divining coconut, to answer the questions of a godchild who had come to consult him.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Checked shirts tied at the waist, while the bands of knitwear that encircled the torso flirted with the notion of modern- day obis.

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2010

Arriving in Washington with a gift-load of cloisonne vases, obis and brocades, his comely daughter Hanako at his side, Mamoru Shigemitsu posed for photographers, leaning heavily on his cane.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also wore gay Page 335embroidered obis, or large sashes, which are put on in a peculiar fashion.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey

They were in holiday attire and the bright colors of the kimonos and obis made a bewildering and brilliant picture.

From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Katherine Stokes




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