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- noun Plural form of
jilbab .
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Examples
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That is what lies behind the soft-focus photograph of those three little girls in jilbabs on their sofa in America.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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That is what lies behind the soft-focus photograph of those three little girls in jilbabs on their sofa in America.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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That is what lies behind the soft-focus photograph of those three little girls in jilbabs on their sofa in America.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Girls in Singapore who attend the local madrassahs wear jilbabs.
Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful ... and Wears a ... Tudung JDsg 2006
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Elsewhere in your morning newspapers there were little cut-out-and-keep drawings of niqabs and burkas and jilbabs and the rest, so that the readers could check out their local Muslim population to see if they were dressed in a manner which would please Jack Straw and Martin Kettle.
Liddle Britain 2006
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Boys in their jeans and some girls in their jilbabs, eating corn on the cob and sipping Coca-Cola.
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Boys in their jeans and some girls in their jilbabs, eating corn on the cob and sipping Coca-Cola.
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Ethnic Chinese own many of the spanking new malls packed with Louis Vuitton, Versace and other designer stores, the places to observe women in the most fashionable silk jilbabs and the most revealing, sophisticated dress.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Chittagong, and who are often confused with Hindu deities; and by the throngs of Muslim schoolchildren, the girls' hair covered with jilbabs, who flock to the Buddhist temple of Borobudur in central Java.
latimes.com - News 2010
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It included a photo of attendant but segregated pantomime women extremists, (at least we can only guess they were women) clad in jilbabs and veils, although the odd glimpse of a Satanic Western Adidas tracksuit was still visible.
unknown title 2009
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