sash

Meanings

Noun

• A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
• A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
• Alternate spelling of shash
• The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
• A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
• The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
• A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.

Verb

• To adorn with a sash.
• To furnish with a sash.

Origin

• From Arabic شَاش ("muslin cloth").
• From sashes, from French châssis ("frame (of a window or door)"), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.