Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loose, long-sleeved garment; a thobe.
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- noun An ankle-length
robe with long sleeves worn by someArab men.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ferraris also mis-uses alhumdil’Allah, she writes bazaar instead of suq; and I heard it called a dishdasha more often than a thobe, and gutra or shamgh rather than keffiyeh which is Palestinian.
The first readings & watchings of 2010 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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He explained that the kandura is the official dress of the Emirates but other countries have their own version of the kandura, also known as a dishdasha, thawb, throbe or suriyah depending what country you are in.
Cator Sparks: Attention Men of the Western World: Calm Down and Embrace the Kandura! Cator Sparks 2011
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He explained that the kandura is the official dress of the Emirates but other countries have their own version of the kandura, also known as a dishdasha, thawb, throbe or suriyah depending what country you are in.
Cator Sparks: Attention Men of the Western World: Calm Down and Embrace the Kandura! Cator Sparks 2011
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He was dressed in the traditional Arab garment that looked like a long nightshirt known as a dishdasha.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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He was dressed in the traditional Arab garment that looked like a long nightshirt known as a dishdasha.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Men wear an ankle-length, loose-fitting garment, known as kandoura or dishdasha, which is usually made of white cotton, although darker, heavier materials may sometimes be seen in the winter.
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At the counter, he held an urgent conference with the cook, a plump young man in a dirty dove gray dishdasha.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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He was wearing a long white dishdasha and bearing a karaoke machine.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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“And he is wearing a dishdasha and dressed like a sheikh.”
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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After the man disappeared, a thin, kindly old man in a dishdasha and a white knit prayer cap came and stood over me.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
chained_bear commented on the word dishdasha
"Dressed in a gray pin-striped dishdasha and sporting a walrus mustache ..."
Kevin Paraino, "Destination Martyrdom," Newsweek (April 28, 2008), 27
April 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dishdasha
I always loved this word. :-)
April 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word dishdasha
Also known as a thawb.
April 24, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dishdasha
Also kandura or khameez, yes? Or are they all different?
April 24, 2008