How To Use Jellaba In A Sentence
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The wait staff usually wears traditional jellaba (jeh-lah-bah), which are long, flowing garments that are pleasing to the eye, and the food is very exotic, spicy, and delicious.
Arabic for Dummies
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A jellaba is a long, flowing garment worn by farmers in the Middle East.
Arabic for Dummies
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In cold weather, many men cover their jellabas with a hooded cloak called a burnus.
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In the scrum on the quayside, the Turkish fez mingled with the spiked Prussian helmet, the frock coat with the jellaba, the veil with the parasol.
Three Empires on the Nile
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However, thanks to monetary policy as loose and ill-fitting as an XXL jellaba, most of us were standing passively by while, in the international financial hub of New York City, the banks tossed vast sums of cheap, borrowed money into the ever greedier hands of millions who could never even qualify for an ordinary mortgage.
Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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Clearly amused, a young lad peered at me through the hood of his woollen djellaba.
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‘Dressed in Moorish djellabas and wielding damascene scimitars, they made a terrifying sight,’ writes popular historian Giles Milton.
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There would be no Kodak snaps to be printed after these flights, no Me, buying a djellaba at the market in Tangiers.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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After checking in I donned a hooded, robe-like jellaba and headed up into the valley on a trail behind the ancient kasbah.
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As we pulled up to the front entrance, two ebullient doormen outfitted in traditional white jellabas and fez hats opened the doors to reveal spotless floors of tessellated Islamic tile.
Lapping Luxury or Riding Waves? We Took the Low Road to Morocco
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Of course, children can't fit in the hood of the jellaba, but the hood is big enough that it symbolizes protection against the rain.
Arabic for Dummies
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Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards.
Sunstroked
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No, sensibly and sensationally, they float about in beautiful saris, djellabahs and caftans, looking very stylishly dressed.
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She wore, instead of the djellaba, a simple white blouse and blue jeans.
DOWNTOWN
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I am frisked thoroughly, quickly and professionally by a mountain of a man dressed in a jellaba.
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Palm + on the front desk and a figure in a djellaba shuffled from a back room.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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The door opened and five women filed in, as if in a play, all dressed identically: grey jellabas, white scarves concealing hair and foreheads, gloves, pale faces devoid of all makeup.
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For the ceremony itself, the groom wears a long, loose-fitting garment called a jellaba and the bride wears the traditional long head shawl and kaftan.
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A middle-aged man in a long, khaki jellaba walked in and his mouth dropped open.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a final foray for djellabas and babouches, we head for the government-run, fixed-price arts and crafts stores.
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The coins disappeared into the folds of his jellaba.
The Eternal Mercenary
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“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf.
Flashman on the March
