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Garment from Boatman's back, absent in Heart of Darkness
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kaftan
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kaftan \Kaf"tan\, n. & v. See Caftan .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean. 2 A long dress or shirt similar in style to those worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kaftan or caftan ( qafṭān ) is a variant of the robe or tunic , versions of which have been worn by several cultures around the world for thousands of years. The kaftan is often worn as a coat or overdress, usually reaching to the ankles, with long sleeves. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And shawls, kaftans, kimonos, I've worn them all and felt I wasn't quite the thing. ▪ At the Met in New York, he took curtain calls wearing a beaded gold kaftan . ▪ Dressed this evening in a stunning kaftan , oblivious to the ...
Usage examples of kaftan.
Brentford United team kaftan, and he did not look out of place as he sat in one of the many coaches that had been chartered to ferry plucky Brentonians to the match.
I could see its hilt protruding from the waistband of a Mongolian-looking person who was dressed like a Cossack, high kaftan and all.
However, I noticed that the four men who were gambling glanced at one another nervously and the Mongolian-looking person in the kaftan smiled.
Annie felt most alive at siesta, when Elsa retired behind the great oak door of her room, curled up in her kaftan like some voluptuous beast.
Garbed in a royal blue kaftan bedecked with elaborate embroidery, Aleksei looked like some bronze-skinned sheik from the deserts of Arabia.
Smoothing his kaftan in a confident manner, he stepped before her and executed a flamboyant bow.
The Russian officer was dressed in a red silk kaftan and looked quite dashing.
Seizing Sergei by the front of his kaftan, Tyrone yanked him forward until the younger man saw firsthand the seething rage that fairly flamed in the bright eyes.
As she faced him, she held out a hand expectantly for the kaftan, but her husband dawdled as he unfastened the frogs.
Finding Ali awaiting them, he retreated to the dressing room, where he doffed his clothes and donned the kaftan his wife had made for him.
The prince scrambled to his feet, and without so much as a downward glance at the clinging bits of offal that adorned his gold-trimmed kaftan, he clasped its hem and made his departure with great, leaping strides.
Strange how Annie felt most alive at siesta, when Elsa retired behind the great oak door of her room, curled up in her kaftan like some voluptuous beast.
Elsa rose, dazzling as a sunflower in her kaftan, her strings of amber beads, bronzed arms chinking with bangles.
She wore a kaftan with a fitted top and flowing robes similar to the one Dr.
Torrance was at the head, looking a little less filthy and disgusting than earlier in the day, wearing a green-and-orange kaftan, belted across his capacious belly.