kabaya

Their lower garment, or sarong, reaching from the waist to the ankles, is usually of red cotton of a small check, with stripes in the front, above which is worn a loose sleeved garment, called a kabaya, reaching to the knees, and clasped in front with silver or gold, and frequently with diamond ornaments.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Their lower garment, or sarong, reaching from the waist to the ankles, is usually of red cotton of a small check, with stripes in the front, above which is worn a loose sleeved garment, called a kabaya, reaching to the knees, and clasped in front with silver or gold, and frequently with diamond ornaments.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

Under her silken sarong would have been an inner garment of white cotton, about her waist a zone of beaded cloth held in front by an oval plate, and over all would have been thrown a long, loose dressing-gown, called the kabaya, falling to her knees and fastened down the front to the silver girdle with golden brooches.

Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882

'kabaya' is worn, and over all a 'slendang,' which is very like a

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

She wore a black veil over her head, and her kabaya, or upper garment, was fastened with three diamond clasps.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

She wore a rich, striped, red silk sarong, and a very short, green silk kabaya with diamond clasps; but I saw very little of her dress or herself, because she was almost enveloped in a pure white veil of a fine woolen material spangled with gold stars, and she concealed so much of her face with it, in consequence of the presence of the Rajah

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Few Dutch ladies in Java mind being seen in what to us appears undress -- a sarong and kabaya -- and frequently, when without guests, it is the custom to dine in this scanty apparel.

From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890

One rather prominent detail was a lady at a neighbouring table dressed only in a sarong and kabaya, with her extremities bare.

From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890

Ladies also sat there, in what X. subsequently learnt was not altogether considered _deshabille_, namely, the sarong and kabaya of the country.

From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890

He almost felt their eyes upon him in wonder and amusement, and, as he gradually neared the steps without in any way looking up, it was in some mysterious manner conveyed to him that these figures were ladies, and their dress, the sarong and kabaya!

From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890