dashikin.
/dəˈʃiːki/, /dɑːˈʃiːki/, U.S. /dəˈʃiki/, /dɑˈʃiki/, West African English /daˈʃiki/ A West African type of shirt, sometimes worn symbolically by black Americans.
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ruffle shirt1749
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dicky1781
overshirt1805
camise1812
mill tog1821
boiled shirt1853
Crimean shirt1853
Crimea shirt1857
shirtwaist1859
shirt1867
polo shirt1887
zephyr1887
Ghost Shirt1890
Henley1890
negligée shirt1895
turtle-neck1897
rugby shirt1902
bush shirt1909
tunic shirt1918
safari shirt1921
button-down1924
thousand-miler1929
aloha shirt1936
buba1937
zoot shirt1942
Hawaiian shirt1955
sweater-shirt1964
beach shirt1966
kimono shirt1968
dashiki1969
1969 Observer 26 Jan. 9/7 The revolution has spread to the Church: Negro ministers often wear dashikis or turtle-neck sweaters.
1969 Sunday Times 9 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 40 The Harlem blacks want the dasheki, the short African jacket.
1970 ‘J. Morris’ Candywine Devel. xvi. 184 A sleek, oxblood brown singer who was flapping his dashiki shirt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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- as white as a cloth
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