tobe

plural tobes

1. A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.

   She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.

   2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4

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   It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.

   1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391

1. A male given name, diminutive of Toby.