Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A band or series of cords used to hold a keffiyeh in place on the head.
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- noun
cord that is fastened around thekaffiyeh
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cord (usually of goat's hair) that Arabs (especially Bedouins) wind around their heads to hold down the kaffiyeh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Authors differ much as to the materials of which it is composed: some suppose it to consist of sea-worms, of the mollusca kind; others, of a kind of cuttle-fish, or a glutinous sea-plast called agal-agal.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise Richard Bangs 2011
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He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise Richard Bangs 2011
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He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise Richard Bangs 2011
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Arafat would wear his keffiyeh in semi-traditional manner, around the head and wrapped by an agal, but he also wore a similarly patterened piece of cloth in the neckline of his military fatigues.
Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Calling him a "Foreigner or AyyRab Lover," they are screeching out domino and post ad hoc conclusions hoping that he will put on a thobe, tagiyah, ghutra, and agal (Arab male garb) to prove their point.
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This item, as it was worn by Yasser Arafat, was typically held in place by a circular rope or agal.
Stop wearing the Keffiyeh..... GayandRight 2009
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My Joseph got to be - Joseph, and emerged wearing two towels on his head, one twisted and tied like an agal.
Dove's Eye View: 2007
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My Joseph got to be - Joseph, and emerged wearing two towels on his head, one twisted and tied like an agal.
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His gutra (not from Dunhill) was tucked in manifold gatherings under the agal, or headband.
The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word agal
"A gilded agal held the veil of his kaffiyeh in place; silk flowed long and light around a fresh white woolen robe."
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, p 190 of the Berkley paperback edition
February 27, 2012