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

European designers have had a long affair with the kimono, the obi and platform sandal, and the chrysanthemum pinks.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012

Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati was all about the waist, fitting the ample '50s-inspired suits with obi belts and strange, misplaced cummerbunds in leopard knits.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2010

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