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kaffiyeh

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kaf·fi·yeh  (kä-f)
n.
A cloth headdress fastened by a band around the crown and usually worn by Arab men.

[Arabic kaffya, colloquial variant of kfya, perhaps from Late Latin cofea, helmet; see coif.]
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Noun1.kaffiyeh - an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal
headdress, headgear - clothing for the head


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He didn't know which, but told me of once getting his bus stuck between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, prompting him to don a kaffiyeh and put up his photograph of the Dome of the Rock - Jerusalem's most striking landmark and a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty over Jerusalem.
About half the men sport the dish-dashas, long white robes, with or without the kaffiyeh on their heads.
They cut vastly different figures, Sheikh Omar and Sheikh Azzam, as they toured the Peshawar refugee camps and traveled together inside Afghanistan: one, a short, blind man wearing a red-and-white fez-like cap who, because of lifelong illness, looked much older than his years; the other, tall and strikingly attractive, in his Palestinian kaffiyeh and Afghan tribal robes.
 
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