keffiyeh

plural keffiyehs · alternative kaffiyah · alternative kuffiyeh · alternative kufiya · alternative kufiyah · alternative kufiyya

1. An Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.

   This guy's already awake! And chipper! He wraps on a keffiyeh!

   2015, Joe Sacco, Palestine, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 31

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   Hos head showed again the dignity of the Arab dress, the inevitable keffiyah of black and white held in place by the black silk agal.

   1951, Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad

   Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”

   2024 November 9, Maya Yang, “Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle”, in The Guardian

   The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge. The crowd grew to more than 50 people within the hour, many draped in keffiyehs and hoisting Palestinian flags high above their heads.

   2025 June 27, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Damenica Ellis, “Protesters gathered in uptown Charlotte to oppose Trump bombing of Iran sites”, in The Charlotte Observer, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2026, Politics & Government

   Synonyms: chafiye, cemedanî, ghutra, hattah, kufiya, mashadah, rezza, scarf