black armbands
Funeral sleeve markers
Black armbands are strips of dark fabric worn around the upper arm as a sign of mourning or protest.
Athletes and officials often wear them to honor someone who has died: The team wore black armbands for their former coach.
They also signal political dissent—the U.S.
Supreme Court's *Tinker v.
Des Moines* ruling protected students' right to wear black armbands protesting the Vietnam War.
- mourningPeriod following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- collective griefSorrow felt as one
paying respects · tribute · death · fallen soldiers · respect · remembrance · protest · solidarity · loss · national tragedy · ceremony · minute of silence · cloth · sleeve · somber · honor · commemoration · vigil
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- Victorian etiquettecalling hours, visiting cards, chaperoning, propriety, decorum
black armbandsparty hats
Festive conical headwear
confetti · graduation caps · wedding favors · streamers · noisemakers
black, blacks, blacked, blacking, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blackish