Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A keffiyeh, especially as worn in countries of the Arabian Peninsula.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The gutra on the man in line ahead of me at the McDonald's bore the Dunhill label.
The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003
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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
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He pointed to a wolfish-looking fellow who was pulling the tail of his gutra across his face.
The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003
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He pointed to a wolfish-looking fellow who was pulling the tail of his gutra across his face.
The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003
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The gutra on the man in line ahead of me at the McDonald's bore the Dunhill label.
The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003
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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
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Arab Times, but I think there was a very brief write-up of it before - a Kuwaiti, coming out of mosque during Ramadan, saw her walking naked and dazed down the street, wrapped a "cloth" - I am guessing his gutra - around her and took her to the hospital.
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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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One thing I like about Dubai is how most of the men there didn’t abandon their white dishdasha, gutra and their agal for modern outfit.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2003
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