dashiki
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- noun
- /dəˈʃiːki/
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dashiki
- A young Nefertiti in platforms and a dashiki picks fresh fruit and vegetables from the small grocery.
- wear a dashiki
- dashiki and an afro
- dashiki-clad
Examples
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He always wears a dashiki with a big cross 'round his neck.
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From within his dashiki, Jones pulls out a black velvet pouch.
Fiction book (2000) -
Oh, look who it is, Mr. Dashiki himself.
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Fix me up a nice dashiki?
Fiction book (1995) -
She is wearing a tie-dyed brown dashiki over her one-piece white suit with those high sides that expose leg up to the hipbone.
Fiction book (1990) -
Black Americans have come some distance from the '60s, when many middle-class blacks and whites saw the wearing of a dashiki as a provocative political statement.
Academic text (1994) -
A heavy young Englishman in a catfish-patterned dashiki is using the height from which he projects his voice to dominate a discussion on conditions in the liberation movement's prison camps, which have been the subject of a newspaper expose.
Fiction book (1994) -
He always wears a dashiki with a big cross 'round his neck.
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Inga is wearing a hand-woven dashiki from Nairobi.
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Barry donned a dashiki and took to the streets, preaching the virtues of redemption and black pride.
Synonyms
A loose bright robe from West Africa with decorative patterns worn by men
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dashiki comes from West Africa and from the African word danshiki, meaning 'a loose shirt'. So today a dashiki is a brightly colored, loose tunic often worn to show cultural pride.