Etymology

muumuu

muu·muu
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Today it means: A long, often calf-length, loose-fitting dress chiefly with short sleeves which is made of lightweight fabric printed with colourful, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches). Full definition →

Hawaiian muʻumuʻu
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  1. Hawaiian · borrowed frommuʻumuʻu
  2. Hawaiian · borrowed frommuʻumuʻu
  3. English todaymuumuu

Borrowed from Hawaiian muʻumuʻu, from muʻumuʻu (“to be cut off; to be shortened”, verb), probably because the garment is a short-sleeved and often calf-length version of the floor-length holoku or Mother Hubbard dress which has long sleeves and originally a train.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.