lambas

We were pushed up a flight of steps to the platform, and made to stand in line; I was still blinking from the sunlight, wondering what this might portend, as I looked out over the crowd - blacks in lambas and robes for the most part, a few knots of officers in comic-opera uniforms, plenty of sedans with wealthy Malagassies sitting under striped umbrellas.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Well-stocked booths, shady avenues, neatly-robed folk bustling about their business, expensively-carved and painted sedans swaying through the streets, carrying the better sort, some in half-European clobber, others in splendid sarongs, and lambas of coloured silk.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

The nobs wore lambas - robes not unlike Roman togas, although in Antan 'itself their clothing was sometimes of the utmost outlandish extravagance, like my commandant.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

The women, who appeared to be in the majority, wore white cotton gowns, often neatly embroidered, and white or black and white striped lambas, thrown gracefully over their shoulders.

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885

The men were clad also in cotton, white cotton pantaloons, cotton lambas, and straw hats, with large black silk band.

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885

Many of the women are very light-coloured and very pretty; they dress in a kilt of many folds of gaudy lambas.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The men appear in gaudy lambas, and carry little save their iron wares, fowls, grass cloth, and pigs.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Lambas of many kinds were also to be seen, from those of coarse rofia cloth to those of finer and more ornamental material -- though the finest silk lambas and the more expensive European goods were not often exposed for sale there, but were to be had at the houses of the traders and manufacturers.

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859

Laxity seemed to prevail among the guards, for many people who carried weapons ill-concealed in their lambas, and whose looks as well as movements were suspicious, were allowed to enter.

The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859

The men flaunt about in gaudy-coloured lambas of many folded kilts ” the women work hardest ” the potters slap and ring their earthenware all round, to show that there is not a single flaw in them.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874