Did you possibly mean one of these? Gaura, guara, gutta
Examples
“He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
“He became known around the Southern community for always wearing his country's traditional long, white cotton thobe and ghutra scarf above a long beard.”
The Huffington Post: Craig and Marc Kielburger: Promoting a culture of volunteerism in Saudi Arabia
“They covered their long black hair with white muslin turbans or the traditional Bedouin red-and-white-checkered ghutra.”
“But they eschewed the iqal, the thick black rope that usually held the ghutra in place, because this was also thought to be pretentious, as the Prophet was not known to have worn an iqal.”
“Helen Metz always kept a ghutra—the red-and-white-checkered headscarf worn by Saudi men—in the closet for just such an emergency.”
“Calling him a "Foreigner or AyyRab Lover," they are screeching out domino and post ad hoc conclusions hoping that he will put on a thobe, tagiyah, ghutra, and agal (Arab male garb) to prove their point.”
“By finding a backdoor for nativity displays on public property, the Christian soldiers in local government probably thought at the very worst they'd have to endure a papier-mâché menorah alongside their one true Messiah, and maybe a few scathing letters from Green Bay's Muslim community (a delightful young man in a blaze-orange ghutra named Jabir: you can't miss him).”
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: A Festivus for the Rest of Us
“Conversely; a heavily bearded man - face illuminated by the sun beams through the windows of a nondescript, sand-swept desert mosque - prays alongside many others, stands solemnly, refits his ghutra snuggly to his head, and straps a C-4 filled vest to his chest.”
Jake Brewer: Digg's Great Geek Revolt: When Huge, Rich, and "Powerful" Can't Win
“Been there, done that, seen the movie and bought the thawb and ghutra.”
“He was impeccably accoutered in an immaculate white thobe, his head covered with a ghutra, a triangular folded cloth tied with gold braid.”
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
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hernesheir Cf. shemagh. Nov 7, 2012