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Definition of Mourning band
1. Noun. A black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mourning Band
Literary usage of Mourning band
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correct Social Usage: A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style and Deportment by George Rippey Stewart (1906)
"A mourning band one-sixteenth of an inch in width is usually retained to ...
For such relatives the mourning band is not graduated; it remains the one width ..."
2. The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology by Gustav Spiller (1902)
"I look at a person, and my eye happens to rest on the mourning band round his hat.
This indicates the point of departure. As I centre the attention on the ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1882)
"An eminent Liberal journal of the most intense principle is the Peep o1 Day.
Ob- «erve ; its columns are draped in a mourning-band. ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1872)
"An eminent Liberal journal of the most intense principle is the Peep o' Day.
Observe ; its columns are draped in a mourning-band. ..."
5. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"All admit that the subject here is the mourning band for the head; the staffs
borne in the two cases corresponded in colour to the band. ..."
6. Correct Social Usage: A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style and Deportment by George Rippey Stewart (1906)
"A mourning band one-sixteenth of an inch in width is usually retained to ...
For such relatives the mourning band is not graduated; it remains the one width ..."
7. The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology by Gustav Spiller (1902)
"I look at a person, and my eye happens to rest on the mourning band round his hat.
This indicates the point of departure. As I centre the attention on the ..."
8. Fraser's Magazine (1882)
"An eminent Liberal journal of the most intense principle is the Peep o1 Day.
Ob- «erve ; its columns are draped in a mourning-band. ..."
9. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1872)
"An eminent Liberal journal of the most intense principle is the Peep o' Day.
Observe ; its columns are draped in a mourning-band. ..."
10. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"All admit that the subject here is the mourning band for the head; the staffs
borne in the two cases corresponded in colour to the band. ..."