The mint colored sundress flared out from its slim waistband as she moved.
They are fastened round the waist with a scarf or string called kamarband (waistband) or izarband, and are usually of white cotton.
But instead of helping her into the wagon in the same gentlemanly manner, he grabbed her by the collar and waistband and dumped her in the front of the wagon.
Such a cloth may once have passed between the legs, being kept in position by the waistband (examples in Perrot and Chipiez, Greece, ii.
She modestly lifted her shirt a little and gently pulled the waistband down far enough to reveal the angry red bumps.