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Vinony

sash

noun

  1. band or strip of fabric wrapped around the waist or worn over the shoulder or hips and usually tied
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /sæʃ/

noun

Etymology: From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

  1. The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.

    “Near-synonym: casement”

    “One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.”

  2. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
  3. The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
  4. A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.

    “Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]”

    “[…] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down.”

verb

Etymology: From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

  1. To furnish with a sash.

    “The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,”