wristbanding

English

Etymology

wristband +‎ -ing

Noun

wristbanding (uncountable)

  1. Material for making shirt cuffs.
    • 1776, Jeremy Bentham, letter to Samuel Bentham:
      If any Shirts should be found to want new wristbanding or collaring let it be done with rather purer cloth than that of the shirt itself — especially wristbanding.
  2. The process of putting a wristband on a person.
    • 2001, Tony Waters, Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan:
      The 70,000 number, though, was arrived at only after the refugees had been in place in refugee camps for seven to eight weeks, and was obtained by means of a large wristbanding exercise in which every single refugee had a non-removable wristband put on in one day.
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