What is "jellaba"

Usage examples of "jellaba".

Muzzaf Kerpatik was a sleekly prosperous person, in his long light-brown jellaba and curl-toed boots, a Star medallion around his neck in silver and diamond chips, two amulets dangling from his belt, mother-of-pearl inlays on the scabbard of his dagger and the butt of his pepperpot revolver.

Dido kept refusing and the old man with his stool, filthy jellaba and frayed boots took her refusals badly.

Tugging at his beard, Hajj Rahman adjusted his jellaba until he could sit more comfortably.

Prisoner Zero be hosed down and found an old jellaba, shoes and dark glasses.

The boy stripped off his stolen battledress and shrugged himself into his own jellaba, stuffing his uniform into a Nike holdall.

Without pausing, the boy unbuttoned the neck of his jellaba, dragged the garment over his head with his one good hand and discarded it in the dirt.

Returning the peace, the boy trotted back to his stall, a hand-me-down jellaba dragging behind him in the dirt.

Malika, his arm untied and his jellaba discarded in an untidy heap beside the twine snake.

On the screen were solemn processions of camels and Cadillacs, sheikhs in jellaba, keffigeh and mirrorshades, European dignitaries with wives in tasteful gray Parisian fashions.

A slight, short Arab dressed in a brown jellaba with grey beard and grey face.

The hog is dressed in a jellaba, a keif pipe juts from its mouth, one hoof holds a packet of feelthy pictures, a mezuzzoth hangs about its neck.

The Party Leader strides about in a jellaba smoking a cigar and drinking scotch.

He stank of sweat and his jellaba was rotten beneath the arms from lack of washing.

Scrabbling in his jellaba pocket, then in all the pockets of the tattered trousers he wore beneath.

The concrete-stained sandals and filthy jellaba identified Raf as a man mostly used to casual graft.