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plural shashes
(obsolete) The scarf of a turban. quotations
So much for the silk in Judea, called shesh in Hebrew, whence haply that fine linen or silk is called sashes, worn at this day about the heads of eastern people.Spelled shashes in the 1st edition (1650).]
, London: William Tegg, published 1869, book II, paragraph 24, page 279
(obsolete) A sash.
uncountable
(television) Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”) quotations examples
Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]
1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen
No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.
2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness, page 159
third-person singular simple present shashes, present participle shashing, simple past and past participle shashed
(intransitive, rare) To produce white noise. quotations
The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence. Urgently the man repeated, 'Shearwater, Shearwater, Shearwater. This is Brewmarine. Keith speaking. Over. Over.' More shashing, more silence.
2003, Libby Purves, Casting Off