So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people. 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Land of Moriah”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 24, page 303:
fi nauha (decorative length of cloth) · fr écharpe (decorative length of cloth) · he אַבְנֵט (decorative length of cloth) · pt faixa (decorative length of cloth) · de Schärpe (decorative length of cloth) · cmn 飾帶 /饰带 (decorative length of cloth) · cs šerpa (decorative length of cloth) · ko 허리띠 (decorative length of cloth) · pl szarfa (decorative length of cloth) · az belbağı (decorative length of cloth) · ja 帯 (decorative length of cloth) · ru ле́нта (decorative length of cloth) · da skærf (decorative length of cloth) · fi vyö (decorative length of cloth) · bg пояс (decorative length of cloth) · sh ešarpa (decorative length of cloth) · ms sawat (decorative length of cloth) · ru куша́к (decorative length of cloth) · ar وِشَاح (decorative length of cloth) · nl sjerp (decorative length of cloth) · az qurşaq (decorative length of cloth) · nv sis (decorative length of cloth) · el ζώνη (decorative length of cloth) · mk ѕу́ница (decorative length of cloth) · uk пояс (decorative length of cloth) · it sciarpa (decorative length of cloth) · pl pas (decorative length of cloth) · eo skarpo (decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder) · mk по́јас (decorative length of cloth) · uk перев'яз (decorative length of cloth) · ru по́яс (decorative length of cloth) · csb szerpa (decorative length of cloth) · fa بروفه (decorative length of cloth) · sw shuka (decorative length of cloth) · sv skärp (decorative length of cloth) · it fascia (decorative length of cloth) · mi tāpeka (decorative length of cloth)
1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,
[…] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
Meanings
The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
She chiefly recalled the Square under snow; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put right now)! 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Book 4, Chapter 2:
One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone. 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 91:
"In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier." 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter II, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
Near-synonym: casement
A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
(qualifier:sawmilling) 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.
[…] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down. 2008, Kenneth L. Williamson, Katherine M. Masters, Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments, published 2015, →ISBN, page 35:
Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […] 1915 April, W. A. Hamor, “Description of the New Building of the Mellon Institute”, in The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, page 334:
it persiana (opening part of a window) · fi raami (rectangular frame in which a saw is strained) · fi ikkuna (opening part of a window) · fi ikkunanpuite (opening part of a window) · fr ouvrant (opening part of a window) · it anta (opening part of a window) · el ορθοστάτης (opening part of a window) · sv båge (opening part of a window) · fr battant (opening part of a window) · es guillotina (opening part of a window) · ota چرچوه (opening part of a window) · cmn 窗扇 (opening part of a window) · tr söve (opening part of a window) · tr çerçeve (opening part of a window) · de Schiebeflügel (opening part of a window) · cmn 窗框 (opening part of a window) · sv fönsterbåge (opening part of a window) · de Fensterflügel (opening part of a window) · fr ventail (opening part of a window) · it battente (opening part of a window) · nl schuifraam (opening part of a window) · es painel (opening part of a window) · ru ра́ма (rectangular frame in which a saw is strained) · de Schieberahmen (opening part of a window) · es panel (opening part of a window) · fi kehys (graphical user interface: draggable bar)
From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
Meanings
(transitive) To furnish with a sash.
The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d, 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2: