Meanings
adjectiveLaboyan (not comparable)
- not comparableFrom, or pertaining to, Laboya.
As it is the most splendid creation within the Laboyan textile tradition, the value of this type of large men's wrap was perhaps always twofold.
1993, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Ruth Barnes, David J. Stuart-Fox, editors, Weaving Patterns of Life: Indonesian Textile Symposium 1991, Switzerland: Museum of Ethnography, Basel, →ISBN, page 2541 more example
Moreover, ambiguity may be tactically advantageous, as suggested by Edgar Keller's (1992: 258) account of a rich, self-made Laboyan who favored an idiosyncratic style of tying his headcloth, with the ends handing down.
1997, Webb Keane, “Chapter 3: Things of Value”, in Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 79
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