obi

plural obis

1. A sash worn with a kimono.

   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

   1 more example

   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

2. A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.

plural obis

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of obeah.

1. A surname.
2. A male given name.

   Chelsea made two changes to the side that lost at Manchester United, with Frank Lampard making way for John Obi Mikel and Nicolas Anelka starting ahead of Didier Drogba.

   2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport

3. alternativeAlternative form of Ob

   A vast extent of eastern Europe and of western central Asia thus became a huge reservoir, the lowest part of the lip of which was probably situated somewhat more than 200 feet above the sea-level, along the present watershed of the Obi, which flows into the Arctic Ocean.

   1906, Thomas Huxley, “The Aryan Question”, in Collected Essays, volume 6, page 300