Crossword clues for dashiki
dashiki
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1969, of West African origin.
Wiktionary
n. A loose and brightly colored African shirt.
WordNet
n. a loose and brightly colored African shirt [syn: daishiki]
Wikipedia
The dashiki is a colorful garment for men widely worn in West Africa and also worn in other parts of Africa. It covers the top half of the body. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored suits. A common form is a loose-fitting pullover garment, with an ornate V-shaped collar, and tailored and embroidered neck and sleeve lines.
Usage examples of "dashiki".
His graying hair was cut in a short afro, and he wore a long, blue-patterned dashiki.
We will put on the white cotton embroidered dashikis, pantaloons, and crocheted knit caps of the faithful Ethiopian.
The floor was now full of Senegalese in dashikis, mostly men, all black, all with glasses, silver-framed, looking like a U.
Seconds later we were driving the wrong way on a three-lane, one-way street, with dozens of crossing pedestrians in their unblemished long dashikis waving us back -- back, idiots!
Everywhere were people in dashikis, long enough to brush the unpaved shoulder but still unbesmirched.
Everybody was watching half a dozen skinny, bearded persons in dashikis and sandals, sitting in a corral at the plaintiffs’ end of the room, drinking Cokes and giggling among themselves.
They wore the costumes of their native countries: dashikis from Africa, cotton suits from Asia, dark blue mohair from the United States.
Each wore the epitome of a themed outfit from his or her respective region, from the colorful dashiki of the African potentate to the wide sombrero and gauchos of the South American and the ten-gallon hat and embroidered cowboy suit of the North American.