futahn.
/ˈfuːta/ A kind of material originally imported to Arab countries from India; hence, an article or garment made from this material, spec. a kind of loin-cloth or short skirt worn by Arabs.
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1616 B. Farie Let. 26 May in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1900) IV. 306 As for the sales of the Surratt clothing you sent along in the Sea Adventure, I refer you to the advice of Mr. Sairs, entreating you that if you have..lunges and footaes of all sorts that will not vend in Japon, to ship them away for this place.
c1580 Let. 5 May in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1625) II. i. 206 Having each one cloth about their privities, called in their tongue Photah.]
1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 293 But when the Women are at Home and in Private, then they lay aside their Hykes and sometimes their Tunicks, and, instead of Drawers, find only a Towel about their Loyns... This is called both in Barbary and the Levant, a Footah.
1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. v. 175 A napkin (foo′tah) is given to each person.
1853 J. Richardson Narr. Mission Central Afr. I. v. 67 A few [of the Touaregs] sport a red fotah, or turban.
1923 Other Lands Oct. 17/1 The fūtah is tied round the waist, and reaches nearly to the knees.
1936 F. Stark Southern Gates Arabia iii. 32 They wore their futahs (loin-cloths) as long as a kilt or even a skirt.
1962 Times 12 Jan. 12/6 The tribesmen in their kilts, or futas as they call them.
1966 ‘S. Harvester’ Treacherous Road x. 90 A knee-length futah, a sort of kilt, of printed or white cotton.
1986 Middle East Rep. Mar. 24 Traditional and comfortable, the futa has long been ridiculed by Mexicans and others as ‘a woman's outfit’.
1997 T. Macintosh-Smith Yemen viii. 208 Hadramis with plastic briefcases and new starchy futahs, worn ankle-length with the labels still attached, were trying to get each other to shell out for the empty seats.
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