tobe
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təʊb/
Noun
tobe (plural tobes)
- A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
- 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:
- It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.
- 2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:
- She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.
- 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:
German
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