obi

Example Sentences

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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

Prada deconstructed the kimono, Aquilano Rimondi incorporated elaborate obi sashes and Pucci embroidered dragons, tigers and snakes on silk chiffon.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2012

Mixing that inspiration with the helmets of the Japanese Goldrake robots, Mr. Tisci’s imagination produced the most slender and delicate dresses, using Japanese cranes as symbols and abstractions of an obi sash in leather.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2011

Once she saw my father use the obi, the divining coconut, to answer the questions of a godchild who had come to consult him.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García