Sash, noun

Elliptical for Black Sash (sense b). Also attributive.
1955 Friend in M. Rogers Black Sash (1956) 65When delegates assembled outside for a group photograph of the congress, the ‘Sash’ women were there to meet them again.
1963 M.G. McCoy Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeI had to get to a Sash stand in front of the Stock Exchange so we shared a taxi down.
1980 Rand Daily Mail 2 Oct. 3‘Sash members who attended the inquest of Mr Steven Biko were horrified..,’ Mrs Jill Wentzel, the Sash’s vice-president, said yesterday.
1990 Weekly Mail 9 Mar. 7Reform or not, the Sash still has plenty of work.
1992 Black Sash Newsletter Aug. 3At the heart of the debate is different perceptions of what Sash’s role is and should be in transition and in the future.
Elliptical for Black Sash (sense b). Also attributive.
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Hence Sasher  noun, Black Sasher (see Black Sash).
1964 Black Sash Vol.8 No.1, 46The attentions of the ubiquitous sashers appeared to embarrass the Ministers, who went to considerable lengths to avoid them.
1965 Z. Herries-Baird in Black Sash Vol.9 No.2, 21I have never considered myself a particularly adequate Sasher.
1971 J. Robertson Liberalism in S. Afr. 142It rapidly became clear to the Sashers that the infringements of such rights..was having its chief impact on the non-whites rather than the whites.
1980 E. Prov. Herald 13 June 3Sashers to persevere. The Port Elizabeth branch of the Black Sash will continue to hold solitary placard protests.
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