hijabize

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verb

To adorn or cover with a hijab; to veil with hijab-like scarves.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

verbhijabize (third-person singular simple present hijabizes, present participle hijabizing, simple past and past participle hijabized)

present singular third person hijabizes · participle present hijabizing · participle past hijabized · past hijabized

  1. rareTo adorn or cover with a hijab; to veil with hijab-like scarves.

    The women's behaviors must also be hijabized.

    2002, Insa Hartel, Body and Representation, Page 105
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    Exemplary of tactical media production would be the work of Princess Hijab, whose provocative street art includes hijabizing adverts—painting black hijabs on commercial adverts for products such as jewellery and make-up.

    2009, JG Payne, Feminist media as alternative media? A literature review

    When I see an interesting billboard or model that I find unusually arresting, I feel the impulse to hijabize is (y), to draw a black veil ...

    2011, A Moors, Open space 98 NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab: Niqab activism, satire and street art

    Princess Hijab began her work of “hijabizing” or “niqab interventions” on Western media advertisements on the Paris metro in 2006.

    2011, EEK Kane, Eroticism and Vandalism: NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab on the Burqa Ban in France

Origin

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