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means The strip of fabric encircling the waist on trousers or skirts, usually reinforced to hold the garment up.
from A straightforward compound of 'waist' (from Old English *wæst*, related to 'growth' or 'size,' the part of the body where one 'waxes' outward) and 'band,' a flat strip used to bind or encircle something, from Old Norse *band*. No hidden story here — just English doing what it does best, gluing two useful words together to name a useful thing.
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