(n.) A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
(n.) A combination cloak and hood worn by women.
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Kaftan
Definition:
(n & v.) See Caftan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solemn flagstones frowned up at kaftans, wooden beads and waist-length hair.
(2) So now we have to start again, I went to Dave, babes, even if Mantel's literary kaftans conceal a bitter republican whose misguided hatred of the constitutional monarchy is surpassed only by her allegiance to the discredited regime of Joseph Stalin, whose statue, according to her LRB article, she outrageously proposes to erect in Budleigh Salterton's historic town centre, maybe you could have considered the availability of other on-trend & award-winning lady writers on vintage themes before you dissed the inspiration for our Hilary tote?
(3) Valerie Grove, the journalist and writer, says that she was always "the one with the glamour and eyelashes and floaty kaftans" who "obviously had many chaps in pursuit and invariably got pounced on by male interviewees".
(4) ", Omega devotees wore floaty kaftans from India, and in the exhibits hall there was a touch of Camden Market meets the student union.
(5) His dark suits disappeared, replaced by luxuriously louche kaftans, silk shirts, suede jackets and leather trenchcoats.
(6) He also made the kaftan almost as common a sight in Manhattan as it was in Oran.
(7) For all the tired old jokes about kaftans, veggies and sandals, where social workers have led, other professions have often followed.
(8) Finally, there is the kaftaned all-seeing mother – Mrs Madrigal.
(9) The foreign minister, William Hague, wrote in the Telegraph that we need to "develop indigenous European energy supplies … such as shale gas", while commentators including Matt Ridley argued that if it wasn't for "the greens in suits, rather than kaftans" we could have a fully fledged fracking industry up and running already .