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Canadian belt Obs.

• 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 also: arrow sash  L'Assomption sash  sash  

  • 1821  (1938)  Mr. Perring arrived with . . . some Canadian belts.