sweatband
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- noun
- /ˈswɛtˌbænd/
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cinta absorbente
- The young officer doffed his cap and wiped the sweatband as he talked to my mother, who raised her fingers to her face.
Examples
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When ordered to remove his wide-brimmed hat, one old man held it for the guard to look inside; then, flipping out the sweatband, he gave the crown a tap, causing something to fall to the floor, and then waited with a callused palm extended as the guard bent to retrieve it.
Fiction book (2000) -
Sees Lecter straightening Krendler's sweatband.
Fiction book (2001) -
He adjusted the sweatband inside his hat to ensure it fit snugly against his forehead.
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The sweatband of my baseball cap helped absorb the sweat as I played in the summer heat.
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She sewed a new sweatband into the crown of her hat to keep it comfortable during the long hike.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sweatband is made of two simple parts: sweat ('the liquid your body makes when you are hot') and band ('a narrow strip'). It originally named the strip sewn inside a hat that soaks up sweat, so the word tells you exactly what it does.