What is "caftan"

Usage examples of "caftan".

Supposedly in her bridal tent, lounging in a silken gown among silken cushions with kohl on her eyelids, henna on her fingertips, attar of rose, jasmine, and orange blossom perfuming the air, Zohra instead was standing on the very top of the Tel, dressed in an old caftan and trousers that she had stolen from her father.

Stripping off the caftan and trousers and hurriedly stuffing them beneath a cushion, Zohra dressed herself in the silken bridal gown.

Sara wears clothes I swear I threw out twenty-five years ago, those shapeless, see-through, Indian caftans I have since come to despise, unlike Michelle, my fourteen-year-old, who will only wear clothes from Club Monaco and nitors each family altercathe Gap, and who carefully MOTION from the sidelines, commenting on the action later, like some skinny, adolescent Greek chorus.

It was a caftan, dyed brown and woven with black ogam symbols at the neck and hem and bordering the long, flowing sleeves.

The caftan covered her from neck to ankles, and hid the bag of instruments, masks, and plimsolls she carried.

After breakfast he did a little gentle physio, watched over by his resident nurse, rather fetchingly attired in a caftan that suggested she was naked beneath.

She wore a kind of harem dress of silk trousers and brocaded sort of cutdown caftan.

Many people identify them with long flowing earlocks, black caftans, white stockings, patent-leather pumps, and large fur hats.

During weekends at Camp David they would wear caftans most of the day instead of more customary attire.

He was awarded fifty rubles and a new caftan, which he was not in a condition to accept until several days afterward.

Go, now: you shall have ten rubles and an embroidered caftan for your singing.

One sweater was Opel's, a ski extravaganza, desperately out of place among the rock 'n' roll caftans at the back of the closet.

He quickly found the clothing area of Om's Metamartian catalog and actualized two of the colorful loose caftans.

Her caftaned body seemed to fill a third of the room like a giant, glimmering white mushroom and her white turban floated above her dark features like a disembodied ghost.

The man lying on the ground in a caftan had been dressed in a dark suit then, gyrating on the crowded dance floor.