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‖ saya|ˈsaja| [Sp.] In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, a dress or outer garment worn by women (see quots.).
1841G. Borrow Zincali I. ii. v. 305 This female Gypsy fashion..is more properly the fashion of Andalusia, the principal characteristic of which is the saya, which is exceedingly short, with many rows of flounces. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. Spain i. ii. 196 This male sagum is the type of the modern saya, Arabic sayah, a long outer garment, which is always black, and is put over the indoor dress on going out. 1846― Gatherings from Spain xxiii. 323 The transparent, form designing saya of the lady, heightens the charms of a faultless symmetry which it fain would conceal. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. ix. 132 A full dark purple satin skirt..was plaited low on the hips, and girded loosely with a brightly striped scarf. The head and upper part of the person were shrouded in a close hood of elastic black silk webbing, fastened behind at the waist, and held over the face by the hand... ‘Ah, you found me out,’ cried Rosita... ‘I have the like saya y manto ready for you. Come, we will be on the Alameda [in Lima].’ |