dashiki
IPA: dʌʃˈiki
noun
- A loose and brightly-colored African shirt.
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Examples of "dashiki" in Sentences
- A dashiki is a shirt, not a jacket.
- The dashiki does not have a collar.
- The garment in question is not a dashiki.
- Dashiki is a Yoruba word that means shirt.
- It is sometimes used to make dashiki and kufi.
- Use of the dashiki is limited to informal events.
- The traditional wedding attire is the dashiki suit.
- The dashiki and the kanzu are common throughout Uganda.
- A baggy, v neck robe goes on top of the dashiki and pants.
- In est Africa, men wear the kufi with the dashiki shirt or dashiki suit.
- He needs to know what "dashiki" is, the old 1960s caftan-type outfit that African nationalists used to wear.
- Anya tells Sam, the drummer, she's making a print dashiki for him, and Tim assures Sam she is a "master" with prints.
- Sitting alone in the room waiting for his return, I was surprised to see the door open and an old hippie guy wearing a dashiki enter.