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obi

[oh-bee, aw-bee] / ˈoʊ bi, ˈɔ bi /


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Through the centuries, the unisex garment evolved from an underlayer for the upper class to become outerwear, sashed with an obi but featuring smaller sleeves that aided physical activity — helpful for the samurai warriors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

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

Mixing that inspiration with the helmets of the Japanese Goldrake robots, Mr. Tisci’s imagination produced the most slender and delicate dresses, using Japanese cranes as symbols and abstractions of an obi sash in leather.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2011

But on that first day, she liked Kimberly, her breakable beauty, her purplish eyes full of the expression Obinze often used to describe the people he liked: obi ocha.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They were all dressed in dark blue clothes, turned up with red, with bright embroidered obis and flowers in their elaborately dressed hair.

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

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




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