Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A long outer garment, usually of cloth, similar to the caftan, but with shorter sleeves and open in front, worn by respectable Mohammedans in Egypt, Arabia, and Hindustan.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.

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Examples

  • 2 The jubbah is a long outer garment, generally of cloth, worn by learned and respectable men.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Coming back from a shooting assignment in the Middle East, she bought me a jubbah and had me wear it around the house without underwear.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • And yet no sooner did I embrace the part, padding about in my jubbah and Ali Baba slippers, sipping mint tea, jingling my jewelry and letting my belly grow, than she accused me of being a crass vulgarian, an Oriental souk Jew with the taste for trumpery of a market trader from Waltham-stow.

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • In the Moslem countries, they make their women wear jubbah and yashmak.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • In the Moslem countries, they make their women wear jubbah and yashmak.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • In the Moslem countries, they make their women wear jubbah and yashmak.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • Conan, wearing his coat of mail over his jubbah and girt with his sword, stood in the doorway.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • He was a lean, wiry, dark-skinned man in a white jubbah, shorter than Tuthmes and with his Negroid ancestry more prominent in his features.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • And when I did get out, I was away up the length of the street, trailing my long _jubbah_, glancing backward, panting, for I thought that she might dare to follow, with her daring evil will.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • ME gipoun ` gipon, jupon, 'as well as jibba and jubbah.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991

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