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‖ keffiyeh|kɛˈfiːjeɪ|
Also kefiyeh, -ia, kef(f)eyah, keffie(h), kafieh, kaff-, kufiyeh.
[Arab. kaffīyah or kuffīyeh, by some held to be ad. late Lat. cofea, cuphia: see coif.]
A kerchief worn as a head-dress by the Bedouin Arabs.
a1817J. L. Burckhardt Bedouins (1831) I. 48 All the Bedouins wear on the head..a turban or square kerchief of cotton..called keffie. a1839Lady H. Stanhope Mem. (1845) I. iii. 98 (Stanf.) A silk handkerchief, commonly worn by the Bedouin Arabs, known by the Arabic name of keffeyah. 1847Disraeli Tancred iii. vii, That audacious-looking Arab in a red kefia. 1881L. Wallace Ben Hur i. i, His face was..hidden by a red kufiyeh. 1892Blackw. Mag. Mar. 409 His head protected by a kefiyeh. |