sirwal

plural sirwals · alternative serwal

1. A form of baggy trousers worn in North Africa, the Arab world, and parts of the Balkans.

   ‘These,’ Bahiyaa said, pointing at the loose-fitting trousers, ‘we call sirwal.’

   2009, Natasha Oakley, Cinderella and the Sheikh, page 58

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   You dropped your serwal thus, under cover of the encircling boubou, you squatted thus and, having attended to your affairs, you concealed all traces by scuffing the mess over with sand.

   1974, Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Fearful Void