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‖ tobe|təʊb|
Also tob, tope.
[a. Arab. thaub (locally pronounced toːb, soːb) a garment.]
A length of cotton cloth (see quot. 1889), worn as an outer garment by natives of Northern and Central Africa, and in some parts used as currency.
1835Court Mag. VI. 34/1 His coat of divers colours, his decorated tobe, the panther skin he bestrode, his uplifted arm and threatening spear were seen throughout the field. 1843McWilliam Med. Hist. Niger Exped. 87 The articles exposed for sale were bags of salt.., tobes of various colours, country cloths [etc.]. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tob, a piece of Dammour cotton cloth, sufficient to make a shirt, which passes as a currency money in Nubia. 1867Baker Nile Tribut. xiii. 333 The old Abou Do being resolved upon work, had divested himself of his tope or toga before starting. 1872W. H. D. Adams Land of Nile iv. i. 278 They [Nubians] have no currency of their own; glass beads, coral, cotton, tobs or shirts, and samoor or cloth, they receive as money. 1889Edin. Rev. Oct. 391 It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe’, or straight piece of cotton cloth,..two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped..about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder. |