doekn.
/dʊk/, U.S. /dʊk/, South African English /dʊk/ South African.
A cloth, especially a head-cloth. Cf. kopdoek n.
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1798 A. Barnard Jrnl. 22 May in A. W. C. Lindsay Lives Lindsays (1849) III. ii. 460 I offered her four schellings or a doek, viz, a handkerchief; she preferred the last.
1853 W. R. King Campaigning in Kaffirland iii. 19 Gaily dressed in startling cottons, with gaudy douks or bandanas on their woolly heads.
1944 M. de B. Nesbitt Road to Avalon viii. 66 The women in neat white print dresses and ‘doeks’—coloured kerchiefs wrapped around their heads.
1956 N. Gordimer Six Feet of Country 43 Now she had on her head a woollen doek again, instead of one of the maids' caps Ella provided for her to wear.
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