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obi

[oh-bee, aw-bee] / ˈoʊ bi, ˈɔ bi /


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They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2023

“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

I had a green brocade dress with an obi sash I made myself for the occasion.

From New York Times Nov. 14, 2017

Designer Pilati sent out beautifully tailored blazers in nubby brown and oatmeal fabrics, cinched tight at the waist with patent leather belts or obi belts that looked like misplaced cummerbunds.

From Seattle Times Jun. 25, 2010

He led the way into his dim obi, which smelled of mushrooms.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" 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 Brassey, Annie

But fine kimonos and rich obis are for the wealthy Japanese; the poor cannot afford them, and dress very simply.

From Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by Finnemore, John




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