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djellaba

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djel·la·ba or djel·la·bah also jel·la·ba  (j-läb) or ga·la·bi·a (-b-)
n.
A long, loose, hooded garment with full sleeves, worn especially in Muslim countries.

[French, from Arabic jallbya, from jallb, attractive, from jalaba, to bring, fetch; see glb in Semitic roots.]


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For example, one shows a Western woman sunbathing on a beach where two North Africans covered by veil and djellaba walk; juxtaposed with this image is a black-and-white photograph in which a female immigrant, probably drowned, is laid out in the sand next to a Spanish policeman.
sometimes she wore the traditional caftan and djellaba (a hooded outer garment that does not cover the face), and sometimes she did not.
He would make an ideal guest at one of the artistic Tuscan house parties of which the Prince of Wales, in his djellaba, dreams to be host.
 
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