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A British police officer's duty belt, with Hiatts Speedcuffs, handcuff keys and CS spray visible.. A police duty belt (sometimes referred to as a gun belt, "duty rig" and/or kit belt [1]) is a belt, typically constructed of nylon or leather used by police, prison and security officers to carry equipment easily in a series of pouches attached to the belt, in a readily-accessible manner, while ...
A Sam Browne belt as worn by Canadian officers during the First World War. The Sam Browne belt is a leather belt with a supporting strap that passes over the right shoulder, worn by military and police officers. It is named after Sir Samuel J. Browne (1824–1901), the British Indian Army general who invented it.
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The term is also used figuratively for any beating in general, regardless of the implement (e.g. in Scotland, the tawse, a forked type of strap, was frequently called the belt) or even absence thereof, also in the figurative sense, such as a defeat or other unpleasant, painful and/or humiliating (e.g. verbal) treatment, or even an impersonal ...
Up until 1989, most artists drew the utility belt as a simple yellow belt with a buckle and capsules/cylinders around it (except artist Graham Nolan, who included two pouches on the back of the utility belt). In 1986, Frank Miller drew Batman's utility belt with military-style pouches in the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns limited series.
The Bellifortis sketch (c. 1405) Sixteenth-century satirical German woodcut Excerpt from U.S. patent 995,600 by Jonas E. Heyser.. Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Nicholas Gorranus all made passing references to "chastity belts" within their exhortatory and public discourses, but meant this in a figurative or metaphorical sense within their historical context.
Chastity belt (BDSM) Chastity piercing This page was last edited on 5 October 2023, at 01:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Korean women wearing the traditional hanbok concealed the female body by binding their breasts tightly with a cloth band. [6] [7] In Japan, the traditional kimono flattens the appearance of the breasts, with breasts bound and flattened with an obi, [8] and a datemaki belt wrapped around the torso from the chest to the waist. [9]