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plural obi or obis
A sash worn with a kimono. quotations examples
The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.
1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 29
They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.
2001, Kikue Yamakawa, Kate Wildman Nakai, Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
A strip of paper looped around a book or other product. examples
countable and uncountable, plural obis
Alternative form of obeah examples