kaftanlike

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1. Resembling a kaftan.

   You would be amazed at what is hidden by those kaftanlike cloaks and veils that Moroccan women wear!

   1982, Evelyn Stenbock, Teach Yourself to Write, Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 75

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   He had done it before and played the part now to perfection, swaggering when he had dismounted in the innyard, hooking his thumbs in his leather belt, which was worn over the kaftanlike cloak, drawn close to conceal the thermalsuit which which would have revealed him at a glance as an Outworlder.

   1977, Lin Carter, The City Outside the World, Wildside Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 54

   He sported long red hair, starting to thin, a red beard, sandals, loose kaftanlike shirts splotched with colors, sometimes a gold chain around his neck.

   2005, Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 14