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Clothing for Arab horse on the wagon?
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abaya
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The abaya "cloak" ( colloquially and more commonly, , especially in Literary Arabic : ; plural , ), sometimes also called an aba , is a simple, loose over- garment , essentially a robe -like dress, worn by some women in parts of the Muslim world including ...
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n : (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (synonym of aba English)
Usage examples of abaya.
A woman shrouded from head to toe in the ubiquitous abaya scuttled like a black spider beneath candlelit second stories and balconies on the narrow, cobbled street.
Besides the body-cloaking black abaya, she wore a traditional white pushi that covered most of her face and revealed only her dark eyes, which were neither properly downcast nor idle.
Instantly she pulled dinars from her voluminous abaya, slid into the throng, and added her voice to those calling for the farmer's merchandise.
The bent old woman in the black abaya and face-hiding pushi who had carried the message to the King Sargon Hotel threaded among pedestrians and past plywood stalls where used parts and Iraqi ingenuity for repair flourished.
He spun just in time to see the woman in the long black abaya slide like a shadow out the front door.
Her long abaya flapping around her legs, she moved as swiftly as her bent shape allowed back toward the tire shop.
About ten minutes before his plane was to board, a tall Muslim woman wearing the traditional black head covering and long black robesa pushi and abaya, not the chador, which covered the eyes as well as the head and bodysat down across the aisle from him.
Numbers of locals, heading for the buses, came straight down Abaya Prospekt and passed directly in front of Sergei's bench.
Because the Prophet had worn a beard and a loose-fitting abaya, so did he.