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mourning band

Around the right arm was a black mourning band, two inches deep.

The courtroom was packed with about 100 people, many of them police officers wearing black elastic mourning bands stretched across their badges.

Toby, wearing a sober gray suit with a correct black mourning band round the sleeve, stood by the fireplace.

He fingered the black mourning band on his left sleeve.

He was the son of a well-to-do widow who had come to live in our town; he wore a mourning band on his sleeve.

He still wore a red mourning band on his arm.

At least the mourning band was gone from her brow.

All officers will wear black mourning bands.

The team played the rest of the season with black mourning bands topped by a small number 7 on their left sleeves.

Stretched across the police shields pinned to each blue uniform were black mourning bands - available through the department.