bellyband

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed)
noun a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon

From belly + band. As a Japanese article of clothing, a calque of Japanese 腹巻き (haramaki).

She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt’s port under her bellyband. — Ulysses, James Joyce
Some were conveyed on board in stall-boxes, others were lowered down the hatches by bellybands and slings, in which, being spirited and young, they were very restive, lashing out, to the imminent danger of the brains and bones of those in their vicinity, until they found themselves in the tow-padded stalls below the maindeck. — One of the Six Hundred: A Novel, James Grant

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