How To Use abaya In A Sentence
- Most wore an enveloping black abaya or a head scarf over their hair.
- Many of the men wore white skullcaps and long white robes, and the women were either scarved and covered or in the full abaya, a black nunlike garb.
- The abaya is a long over-garment essentially a robe-like dress with black as the most predominant color among Muslim women. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- Women tend to wear very colorful long-sleeved, ankle-length dresses, with a black silk cloak called an abaya covering them completely in public.
- Many of the men wore white skullcaps and long white robes, dishdashas, and the women were either scarved and covered or in the full abaya, a black nunlike garb.
- There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga. Erik Dorn
- Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
- A basic abaya sells for 70, but an elaborate one with real gold thread can cost 6,000. Times, Sunday Times
- One rather prominent detail was a lady at a neighbouring table dressed only in a sarong and kabaya, with her extremities bare. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India
- The women of the family swept her up in warm embraces, almost causing her to disappear in the flurry of abayas.
