jilbab

plural jilbabs · plural jalabib · alternative jilbaab

1. A long, loose-fitting coat or similar garment worn by some Muslim women to fulfil hijab.

   Most Indonesian women started wearing the jilbab in the last decade, after the fall in 1998 of President Suharto, who had kept a close grip on Islamic groups.

   2009 July 3, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Political Symbol, Demurely Worn, Emerges in Indonesia”, in New York Times