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  • Of that colossal wreck other than ticket booths, soda-pop stands, souvenir stalls, dozing guards, and 200 men in galabias asking,

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • Of that colossal wreck other than ticket booths, soda-pop stands, souvenir stalls, dozing guards, and 200 men in galabias asking,

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • I recall the servants in their long blue galabias.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • He might have found the locale easier to identify in this Hilton, however, since there was a definite sense of the Middle East about the men standing around in their long galabias, wearing headdresses and sandals.

    From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

  • He wasn't the captain, the suit he had on in lieu of a uniform telling her that, although she would later learn that the Egyptian crew wore nothing more indicative of rank than typical galabias.

    From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

  • They could have been anybody dressed in nondescript galabias: friends or foes.

    From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

  • A group of middle-aged local men in brown and gray galabias stood up and addressed him with the respect due to his family: "Zakaria basha."

    NYT > Global Home By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

  • A group of middle-aged local men in brown and gray galabias stood up and addressed him with the respect due to his family: "Zakaria basha."

    NYT > Global Home By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

  • A group of middle-aged local men in brown and gray galabias stood up and addressed him with the respect due to his family: "Zakaria basha."

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT F. WORTH 2011

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