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  2. Mortise lock - Wikipedia

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    Mortise locks may include a non-locking sprung latch operated by a door handle. Such a lock is termed a sash lock. A simpler form without a handle or latch is termed a dead lock. Dead locks are commonly used as a secure backup to a sprung non-deadlocking latch, usually a pin tumbler rim lock. [note 1] [according to whom?]

  3. Cummerbund - Wikipedia

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    Black tie cummerbund. A cummerbund is a broad waist sash, usually pleated, which is often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets (or tuxedos). [1] The cummerbund was adopted by British military officers in colonial India, where they saw it worn by sepoys (Indian soldiers) of the British Indian Army. [2]

  4. Sash window - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving examples of sash windows were installed in England in the 1670s, for example at Palace House, [1] and Ham House. [2] [3] The invention of the sash window is sometimes credited, without conclusive evidence, to Robert Hooke.

  5. Sash - Wikipedia

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    A depiction of Captain Kidd, showing a red sash around his waist. A sash is a large and usually colorful ribbon or band of material worn around the human body, either draping from one shoulder to the opposing hip and back up, or else encircling the waist.

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  9. Loincloth - Wikipedia

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    Men have worn a loincloth as a fundamental piece of clothing which covers their genitals, not the buttocks, in most societies which disapproved of genital nakedness throughout human history. The loincloth is in essence a piece of material, bark- bast , leather , or cloth, passed between the legs and covering the genitals.