waistcloth

Questions about waistcloth

What does waistcloth mean?

waistcloth means "a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers".

How many syllables are in waistcloth?

waistcloth has 2 syllables and divides as waist-cloth under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for waistcloth?

Close synonyms include girdle, cincture, sash, waistband. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is waistcloth a common word?

waistcloth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.