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Assomption belt 
a colorful sash, 4 to 6 inches wide and 8 to 10 feet long, so called because the best such sashes were made in L'Assomption, Quebec, and widely distributed as trade goods by the fur companies, especially in the design known as the arrow sash. See L'Assomption sash and picture.
See also: L'Assomption sash
- 1908 The old Indian [wore] a shirt and corduroy vest to match, a faded kerchief tied around his head, an Assomption sash, and a begrimed body inside it all. . . .
- 1954 The men wore their hair in what was known as the "Dutch cut" . . . but all were girded with the gaudy "assomption belt" fashioned sash-like in two folds around the waist.
- 1908 The old Indian [wore] a shirt and corduroy vest to match, a faded kerchief tied around his head, an Assomption sash, and a begrimed body inside it all. . . .