Definition of Breastband. Meaning of Breastband. Synonyms of Breastband

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Definition of Breastband

Breastband
Breastband Breast"band` (-b[a^]nd`), n. A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

Meaning of Breastband from wikipedia

- Poshaka (the women's attire). Kālidāsa mentions kurpasika, another form of breastband that is synonymized with uttarasanga and stanapatta by him. Innerwears...
- family Eurylaimidae. A small, distinctive species, it has a black head, breastband, and upperparts, a white neckband, yellow streaking on the back and wings...
- visible and distinctive oval white belly patch encircled by olive-brown breastband, flanks and undertail-coverts. Races tuneti and marjoriae paler, with...
- paintings dating back to 1400 BC. Active women of ancient Greece wore a breastband called a mastodeton or an apodesmos, which continued to be used as an...
- similar-looking but tend to be duller and lack the breast bands. The unique breastband fades in males and may disappear altogether in females. Its song is a...
- species is ****ually dimorphic. The male has a yellow belly without a white breastband, a blue head with a pale-blue orbital eye-ring, a blue bill, a green back...
- centre. The Burmese tit has white rather than buff on the head, a dark breastband and a buff belly. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aegithalos bonvaloti...
- Trojan War. Women in Gr**** and Roman civilizations had at times used breastbands like taenia in Rome to enhance smaller busts but more often, women of...
- light gray. The white throat is framed by black malar stripes and a black breastband, and a white stripe is present at the base of the bill. Sky-blue feathers...
- dramatically marked face, and has buff tips to the feathers of the upper breastband. The nominate subspecies of two-banded puffbird is found in the llanos...