Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cloth headdress fastened by a band around the crown and usually worn by Arab men.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Syria, a small shawl or scarf worn about the head, and bound with a colored cord.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of keffiyeh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal
Etymologies
- Arabic kaffīya, colloquial variant of kūfīya, perhaps from Late Latin cofea, helmet; see coif. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The logic, born in college dining halls and now embraced by people well into adulthood, that holds that donning a colored plastic bracelet or a kaffiyeh is an act of personal and political self-definition can and does attach the same significance to snowboarding and to selecting one’s iPod playlist.”
“As the merchant and I bargained about whether the kaffiyeh should be a dollar or two, I asked the older gentleman selling me the scarves why he would want to sell them at inflated prices to me.”
The Huffington Post: Parvez Sharma: America's Imam and His Problematic Mosque: A Muslim Viewpoint
“The hatemongering Malkin thinks that scarf looks like a kaffiyeh, which is worn in the Middle East.”
“The person manning the base gate thinks that anyone wearing a kaffiyeh is a terrorist," he insisted.”
“Many of the targets were basic silhouettes, though others were figures wearing traditional Arab head scarves, called kaffiyeh, and holding rocket-propelled grenades.”
“President Obama wearing a kaffiyeh which is set to be posted across Israel by rightist group Hazit.”
“Musbah Shoaibe, a kaffiyeh wrapped around his head and an ammunition belt draped across his neck, was hanging out with a group of friends who took part in the takeover of an oil refinery at Zuweitina.”
“With a kaffiyeh draped around the collar of his borrowed camouflage jacket, he, along with his comrades, appear every inch the classic revolutionary.”
Voice of America: On Libyan Front Lines, Rebels Vow to Press On
“A scarf that was clearly not a kaffiyeh, which, by the way, is just a hat that Arabs wear, not some universal symbol of jihad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kaffiyeh’.
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
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Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
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Patchwork
Square or rectangular pieces of fabric of various uses.
swatch, handkerchief, neckerchief, bandana, fogle, napkin, scarf, kaffiyeh, serviette, washcloth, placemat, mola and 16 more...
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2012 Words
Words looked up in 2012
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