cartridge belt
noun
1
: a belt having a series of loops for holding cartridges
2
: a belt worn around the waist and designed for carrying various attachable equipment
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Nefzi designed the bandolera cartridge belt, which includes vials of kitchen spices where some of the bullets would be.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
The new head of administrative affairs at the Education Ministry, also a mullah, wore a cartridge belt to his appointment ceremony in December.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
Her lower back arches under the weight of her own willingness, and the cartridge belt burns into her skin like the lick of a whip.
—Johanna Ekström, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
The first of them bore rifles and cartridge belts; these were the revolutionaries.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
The new head of administrative affairs at the Education Ministry, also a mullah, wore a cartridge belt to his appointment ceremony in December.
—New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
Her lower back arches under the weight of her own willingness, and the cartridge belt burns into her skin like the lick of a whip.
—Johanna Ekström, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
The first of them bore rifles and cartridge belts; these were the revolutionaries.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
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“Cartridge belt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cartridge%20belt. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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