kufiyya

plural kufiyyas

1. alternativeAlternative form of keffiyeh.

   We will put on our embroidered robes and kufiyyas and, in the sight of the world, celebrate together on the day of liberation.

   2001, Eytan Bentsur, quoting Haidar Abd el-Shafi, “Appendix: Middle East Peace Conference”, in Making Peace: A First-Hand Account of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 223

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   The Sabians have striking, aquiline features, the men tall and grave with long beards, their heads covered with red-checked kufiyyas, and their open-faced women are famous for their beauty.

   1988, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., “Baghdad the Beautiful”, in For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, part 3 (Arabian Nights), page 141

   As the rebels roamed through Palestinian towns, they forced the bourgeoisie to start wearing kufiyyas instead of the fez hats.

   2005, Mickey M, “A Rainbow Kufiyya”, in Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Erella Shadmi, editors, Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel (SUNY series in Israeli Studies), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part III (Politics), page 212