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- noun Plural form of
ghutra .
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Examples
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Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia… they all start to bleed together, a mixture of people in ghutras and thobes and burqas speaking a harsh language I have never managed to figure out.
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Unlike thobes, ghutras or other Saudi menswear, the Saudi sandals are also popular and worn by many expats.
American Bedu 2008
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The flowing robes of North Africa and Egypt; the voluminous baggy pants and over shirts of Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent in various soft tones of white, green, pale blue; skinny, fine-boned dark men wearing enormously wide bell bottomed pants last seen in the U.S. in the seventies; the men of Saudi Arabia dashing in white thobes, the color of their ghutras -- red-and-white check, black-and-white check, plain white -- seeming to constitute the entire range of their sartorial choice.
A Veiled Journey Brien, Nell 1999
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