# The Cummerbund — Nonsense Books character guide

> The Cummerbund in Nonsense Books by Edward Lear.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0129-the-cummerbund

## Snapshot

An Indian lady's lost cummerbund becomes the unlikely hero of a poem, a strip of cloth carrying the weight of an entire comic lament.

## Who they are

The cummerbund sits at the center of a poem about loss and recovery, a humble garment treated with the gravity of a missing treasure. Its owner's distress gives the piece its emotional engine, while the cummerbund itself — silent, absent, sought — becomes the object of a chase that only nonsense logic can resolve. It matters because Lear's genius lies in inflating trifles: here, a sash becomes as consequential as any hero.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/iv)

The Cummerbund is the angry monster that pursues and swallows the Lady Fair.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/v)

The Cummerbund is the subject of the chapter, having met a dreadful fate; her Dobie is nailed to the wall as a warning.

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