band

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

band and gusset and seam

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.

sandstone with bands of shale

[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.

To fasten with a band.

As he spake, his eyes rested on the graves below. "Yes," muttered the youth, "they are sufficient answer; they are indeed the end of all human hope." Mechanically he turned from one to another. Some were recently banded down with osiers, and the grass was varied with primrose roots; on some the foxglove grew luxuriantly, while others had a tombstone, carved with a name and a brief epitaph.

To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.

musical band

session band

A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.

Ellipsis of marching band.

A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.

But in the mean time Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

"My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.