kaftanlike
English
Adjective
kaftanlike (comparative more kaftanlike, superlative most kaftanlike)
- Resembling a kaftan.
- 1977, Lin Carter, The City Outside the World, Wildside Press (1999), →ISBN, page 54:
- He had done it before and played the part now to perfection, swaggering when he had dismounted in the innyard, hooking his thumbs in his leather belt, which was worn over the kaftanlike cloak, drawn close to conceal the thermalsuit which which would have revealed him at a glance as an Outworlder.
- 1982, Evelyn Stenbock, Teach Yourself to Write, Writer's Digest Books (1982), →ISBN, page 75:
- You would be amazed at what is hidden by those kaftanlike cloaks and veils that Moroccan women wear!
- 2005, Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, Vintage Books (2005), →ISBN, page 14:
- He sported long red hair, starting to thin, a red beard, sandals, loose kaftanlike shirts splotched with colors, sometimes a gold chain around his neck.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:kaftanlike.
- 1977, Lin Carter, The City Outside the World, Wildside Press (1999), →ISBN, page 54:
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